Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hurt

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

William Least Heat-Moon

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

Walter Winchell

America - love it or leave it.

Walter F. Mondale

Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

Vladimir Putin

European and American values do not fully coincide.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Winston Churchill

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

Winston Churchill

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

Rick Warren

The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship. It guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom.

Robert Gottlieb

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

Richard Widmark

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Rudy Giuliani

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

Rudy Giuliani

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

Sam Walton

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Saffron Burrows

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

Ryan Gosling

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

Ruhollah Khomeini

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

Ruhollah Khomeini

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

Ronald Reagan

America's best days are yet to come.

Ronald Reagan

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

Ronald Reagan

And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.

Wendell Willkie

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

Wendell Phillips

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Walter Reuther

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Yancy Butler

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

Yakov Smirnoff

In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!

Yakov Smirnoff

In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you!

Wyclef Jean

The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

Wyclef Jean

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

Wyclef Jean

America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

Wynton Marsalis

The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

Wolfgang Puck

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

Willie Nelson

America, to me, is freedom.