America Quotes - Page 16

• Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

  June Jordan

  Running, New York, Men

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Economic, Danger, Position

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• One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Bye, Feelings

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

  Herman Melville

  Australia, Sides, Spheres

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.121, Velvet Element Books

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• No one should be required to see America for the first time.

  Ashley Montagu

  Travel, Home, Firsts

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• America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, Technology, Ideas

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• I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.

  Ali Velshi

  Thinking, Roots, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.

  David Letterman

  Two Sides, White, Waiting

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• I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

  Emilio Ambasz

  June, Princeton University, Parent

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• Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

  Arthur Carhart

  Character, People, Soul

  Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1955). “Timber in Your Life”

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• I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

  Foster Friess

  Believe, Office, People

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• I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

  James Spithill

  My Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, People, Ego

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• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, Paris

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Stars, Greatness

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Men, Doctors

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• We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

  Billy Graham

  Moving, Thinking, Scary

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• I am for America because America is for the common people.

  William McKinley

  People, Common

  McKinley, William (1893). “Speeches and addresses of William McKinley, from his election to Congress to the present time.”, p.194, Best Books on

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• I can imagine playing in America.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Imagine, I Can

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• Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

  Pete Hegseth

  Country, Hands, Groups

  "Records show Obama met just once with Shinseki during VA scandal" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Redneck, People, Realizing

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• Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

  John F. Kennedy

  Agency, Confusion, Dry

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

  Si Robertson

  Abnormal, Minefields, Godliness

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• It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - thats when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.

  John Gokongwei

  New York, Museums, Years

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• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving, Foundation, Body

  "Family fortunes" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2008.

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