- Nov 07, 2020
America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Trump says America first, it doesn't mean cheering for America only. It means if you want to care for your neighbors, you have to make sure that you are yourself, first, healthy.
- Nov 07, 2020
The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
- Mickey Mouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
- Discretionary
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
- Compilation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020