America These Days

American cheese is the perfect soft taco. - Wylie Dufresne

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

The United States has much to offer the Third World War. - Ronald Reagan

United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it. - Gregory Nunn

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

America is the land of permanent waves and impermanent wives. - Brendan Behan

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. - Bill Vaughn

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you. - Yakov Smirnoff

Rivers in the United States are so polluted that acid rain makes them cleaner. - Andrew Malcolm

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males. - Warren Farrell

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - P.T. Barnum

There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan

The middle class. Since when in America do we have classes? That's Marxism talk. - Rick Santorum

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J Peter

If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America. - Donald Trump

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. - Ian Fleming

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce

Americans still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. - Barack Obama

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

Does America really need to be the best at everything? You already dominate the world in economics, military power and obesity. - Trevor Noah

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

Over the past fifteen months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in fifty-seven states? I think one left to go. - Barack Obama

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. - Bruce Feiler

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. - Geoffrey Cottrell

Americans are incredibly impatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. - Jim Rohn

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. - Gamal Abdul Nasser

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. - Ted Cruz

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil. - Richard Allen