Quotes of: North-america Keyword

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

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best fo...

Cornel West

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the b...

Eugene Jarecki

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Jamie Dimon

You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed...

Jonah Goldberg

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other...

Jon Meacham

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Nas

So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

Rachel Maddow

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best ...

Richard Trumka