America Quotes

• "I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs."
  By: Stark, Freya quotes
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• "In America everything's about who's number one today."
  By: Springsteen, Bruce quotes
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• "Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause."
  By: Reagan, Ronald quotes
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• "Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves."
  By: O'Rourke, P. J. quotes
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• "America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons."
  By: Ogden, Frank quotes
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• "Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God."
  By: O'Casey, Sean quotes
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• "Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles."
  By: Miller, Henry quotes
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• "America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good."
  By: Mcguane, Thomas quotes
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• "America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."
  By: Bates, Katherine Lee quotes
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• "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
  By: Winston Churchill
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• "Laughter is America's most important export."
  By: Walt Disney
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• "America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn’t that fabulous?"
  By: Tom Robbins (Wild Ducks Flying Backward)
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• "The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried this device to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication."
  By: Somerset Maugham (Cakes and Ale)
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• "The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying,The trouble with this country is..."
  By: Sinclair Lewis
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• "The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don’t have to stay in that home of your own."
  By: Sam Levenson (In one Era and Out the other)
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• "The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Give War a Chance)
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