Quotes of: North-america Keyword

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Call Me Irresistible

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

The Clocks

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Democracy in America

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Democracy in America

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Democracy in America

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

The Emissary: A Novel

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Enchantment

If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.

Fear for America

It didn't get much more patriotic than sex in a Chevy on the Fourth of July. God bless America.

Flirting with Fire

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

Generation Kill

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.

Birds of America

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Marian Wright Edelman

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the...

Naomi Wolf

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Eliot Engel

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Glenn Beck

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

Jim Talent

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Steven Spielberg

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

Henry Rollins