Quotes tagged ‘America’

“You don't give money to the bums On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums Talking about you don't support a crack head? What you think happens to the money from your taxes? Shit the Government's an addict With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit And even if you ain't on the front…”

— Brother Ali, open.spotify.com

“It’s possible to have a major political crisis even if the Constitution is crystal clear on the remedy, or to have a constitutional crisis that doesn’t ruffle many feathers.”

— Seth Masket, Julia Azari, fivethirtyeight.com

“I think it says more about our country and our health care system that more and more health care workers are having to turn to OnlyFans or other means of sex work or other means of getting extra cash, the fact that they’re not getting what they need to make ends meet from the job that they’re dedica…”

— Lauren Kwei, rollingstone.com

“Protesters say they want to see charges for all four police officers involved in the death of Floyd.”

— CNN, cnn.com

“America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.”

— Mike Bloomberg, inc.com

“What would the world be without America? It would be a dull and dinky planet, indeed.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“Since this nation came to be, almost every important invention under creation happened here, because America is the coolest invention of all.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“This country was always cool. Everything we do here is cooler than everything they do everywhere else, and so it will ever be.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“I often wonder if the Founding Fathers sat down in the pub over steins of ale, or at a dining room table over a hardy supper, and said to each other, Let’s start a country.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“The defining characteristic of America is our fanaticism: We dream big, we think large, we create grandeur. We invented Hollywood, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans, the Gold Rush, cable TV with thousands of channels, a military that is larger than those of the next ten combined, the shopping mall, and a st…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan ‘Death to America’ is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan ‘Death to America.’ This is because…”

— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, memritv.org

“This guys is everything wrong with America.”

— Sera Gamble, Greg Berlanti, Caroline Kepnes, Joe Goldberg, Penn Badgley, imdb.com

“The American creed that were all created equal was written long ago, but the genius of every generation of Americans has open it wider and wider and wider to include those who have been excluded in a previous generation. That’s why it’s never gathered any dust in our history books. It’s still alive…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“The reason is what we believe. The most powerful idea in the history of the world, I think beats in the heart of the people of this country. It beats in all of us. No matter your race, your ethnicity, no matter your gender identity, your sexual orientation, no matter your faith, it beats in the hear…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“No matter how old or young you are, you’ve never seen anything like this in your lifetime. We’re being reminded every day there’s nothing guaranteed about democracy, not even here in America. We have to constantly earn it. We have to protect it. We have to fight for it. I believe America is in, as L…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“You know, I think America is tired of Twitter fighting.”

— Kerry Ehrin, Jay Carson, Alex Levy, Jennifer Aniston, imdb.com

“Fuck you. Don't drag America into this. They've got enough shit to deal with.”

— Kerry Ehrin, Jay Carson, Alex Levy, Jennifer Aniston, imdb.com

“In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has its own laws. Football is a way of life.”

— W. Peter Iliff, Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon, James Van Der Beek, imdb.com

“Our leaders cannot be people who lie all the time. They just can’t. I hope people see that is true whether they are Republicans or Democrats."”

— James Comey, news.grabien.com

“We grow up learning all kinds of history about the founding of America, and one of the explorers taught in every classroom is Christopher Columbus. But how much do we actually know about him as an explorer and his famous journey?”

— Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, cnn.com