Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better.
—Paul Wellstone
My country tears of thee.
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
This was the dawn of plastic eating in America.… We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The farther a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better.
—Shirley Abbott
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
—Gertrude Stein
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
—John Green
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
—Eric Nicol
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
—Norman Thomas
There's a group of Americans who are fully employed. They aren't very well paid or they're not paid at all. They're called mothers, and I've never heard of a mother who wasn't a working mother. And that includes the mothers on welfare.
—Theresa Funiciello
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
—Milton Berle
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
—Virgil Thomson
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
—Tellis Frank
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression.
—Jesse Jackson
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
—Dave Barry
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
—Margaret Mead