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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. — Herman Melville

Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

How could that woman [Hillary Clinton] actually be the most cheated-on woman in America? Which she is. — Rush Limbaugh

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV. — Alan Carr

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C.S. Lewis

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family. — Chris Bohjalian

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. — Evan Wright

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

I could not fill those expectations. I've never been presented to the queen," Hamilton said. "Because we live in America and don't have a queen. — Jen Turano

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt? — Dorothea Dix

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. — Joe Conason

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. — Michael Caine

I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him. — Kiera Cass

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. — Mireille Guiliano

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana

You can't spell American without "I can. — A.D. Aliwat

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back. — Martin O'Malley

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity. — Melissa Fay Greene

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. — Raul Julia

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. — Thomas Pynchon

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare. — Tim Huelskamp

The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

He'd do anything for the people he loved, and I knew without question that I was the person he loved the most. — Kiera Cass

America's a very traumatized society. — Alanis Morissette

A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.' — Michael Sheen

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — Steve Earle

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. — Will.i.am

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion. — John W. Gardner

I think America is on the right track. — Wayne Allard

I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. — Eric Ripert

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will America lead ... and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision? — Susan Hockfield

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt. — Kevin McCarthy

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God. — Rafael Cruz

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America. — Paul Begala

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. — Victoria Beckham

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going. — Sara Marie Hogg

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas

Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone. — Vince Vaughn

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.' — Ronald Reagan

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. — Joni Mitchell

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. — Robert Reich

Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures. — Cindy Margolis

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. — Pat Conroy

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. — Mary McCarthy

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so. — Henry David Thoreau

America wants its respect. — Tupac Shakur

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. — Rob Walton

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech. — Jim Jordan

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino

A land even more remote, America, which is farther than death. — Halldor Laxness

What does America love more than one white male? — Paul Mooney

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future. — William J. Clinton

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. — John Lydon

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors. — Michael M. Honda

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels. — Michael Eric Dyson

Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more. — Rinker Buck

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas

The American dream is dead for the majority of America. — Suze Orman

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others. — Werley Nortreus

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America. — Jack Bowman

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone. — Eduard Limonov

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. — Martin Feldstein

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

I just love America. I love living here. — Christie Brinkley

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag, — Sinclair Lewis

America is the world's policeman, all right
a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance. — P. J. O'Rourke

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. — William Allen White

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. — Anne Tyler

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life. — Ezra Koenig

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military. — Mitt Romney

America would still be an unnamed continent full of migratory tribes chasing the rear end of a buffalo every time their stomachs growled. — Ann Coulter

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. — Kenneth Goff

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips

The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together. — Fritz Nordengren

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young. — Jane Seymour

I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.' — Charlotte Rampling

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. — Beto O'Rourke

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. — William Dean Howells

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. — Madeleine Albright

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you. — Kiera Cass

Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do. — John Boehner

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America. — Marco Rubio

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin. — Maurice Gibb

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. — George W. Bush

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. — Marsden Wagner

America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer. — Helen Simonson

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. — Jimmy Webb