Top 1200 South America Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they're so upbeat and positive and polite.

We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.

I wanted so much to come to America and have America hear my music.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

America's business leaders, large and small, must be a part of the solution to bridge America's skills gap.

I think volunteerism in America generally is what makes America so special.

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

I may live in liberal America, but I know that this is not the only America.

America's angry. America's scared. They want security from their country.

I received a call from America after finishing 'Suspect', and I told them that I would go to America if things are ready.

No black or white America-just United States of America.

Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well in North America [on screen: '36% Approval'], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: 'Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps'], Europe seems to think the president doesn't care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he's done for their burning effigy industry.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.