Quotes of: America Keyword

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?” ~Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper versus America

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Britain and America couldn't agree on shoe sizing, dress sizing, weight, distance or temperature measurements, but on the scale of breasts, we were of one voice.

Saving Saffron Sweeting

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

Straight Up

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.

Team Of One: We Believe

America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.

Team Of One: We Believe

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Turn Coat

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

In Persuasion Nation

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

Perverse Wonderland

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

Voice of Reason

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, and everyone is hung up on trying to be a man

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

Bill Frist

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and indus...

Barack Obama