America These Days

America can't beat anyone anymore. - George Clooney

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people. - Franklin D Roosevelt

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

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

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. - William Gibson

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. - Will Rogers

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. - George Bernard Shaw

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find you. - Yakov Smirnoff

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

Texas could exist without the United States but the United States cannot exist without Texas. - Sam Houston

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. - Xavier Becerra

America is a melting pot; the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top. - Charlie King

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. - Grover Cleveland

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks. - Barrymore

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

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. - Warren G. Harding

I have done a Hamburger Helper commercial, a Hardees commercial, a McDonalds commercial. American Express commercial. - Luke Benward

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' - Daniel Tammet

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger

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

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? - Jay Leno

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. - Ann Landers

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

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. - Katharine Hepburn

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

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and somehow get rich. - Paul Harvey

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life. - Christopher Walken

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. - Theodore Roosevelt