America These Days

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

God Bless America, written by Milton Berlin. - Archie Bunker

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. - George Bernard Shaw

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

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

The main obstacle to a stable and just world is the United States. - George Soros

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

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. - Charles E Hughes

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. - Roul Turley

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

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

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America. - Marianne Williamson

There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

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

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country. - Stephen Covey

The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. - Jon Stewart

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went. - John Updike

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

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. - Liz Phair

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

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

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. - John Updike

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

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

A free Negro of the African race is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. - Roger Taney

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde

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

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp. - Jeff Bridges

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