America These Days

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

I'm as single as a slice of American cheese. - Nick Cannon

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

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

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

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. - Miles Kington

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

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

The most important question in American cinema is "When is lunch?" - Tommy Lee Jones

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

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

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

I do know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. - Charles Dickens

One third of the people in the United States promote while the other two thirds provide. - Will Rogers

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

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

The joke was lost on the foreigner - guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. - Mark Twain

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

An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown

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

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

Every American should have above average income, and my administration is going to see they get it. - Bill Clinton

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. - Martin Amis

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

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

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. - Donald Trump

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

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? - Joe Wurzelbacher

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. - Unknown

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. - Neal Barnard

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. - Mike Myers

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. - Malcolm Muggeridge