Quotes on America

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans.

New Rule: This Valentine’s Day Americans must remember that politicians are like a box of chocolates. We bite into them to find out what's on the inside only to discover that Democrats are too often soft and gooey and Republicans are mostly nuts.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.