It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
Graydon Carter
AgeAmericaSaidFirstStageDenial
I've worn down America.
Billy Crystal
AmericaDownWorn
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
Marc Veasey
CultureIdeasAmericaCountryLabor
In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.
Mark Bradford
TimeWarAmericaCrisisRaceHere
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
Edward Ball
SlaveryAmericaRomeAfricaWest
I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
James Dobson
DayPeopleAmericaEvery DayRadio
We, 'Psych,' saved America. That's the tag line.
Dule Hill
AmericaLineSavedTag
I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so good at that.
Viv Albertine
LoveGoodSongThinkAmericaLondon
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
Tim Holden
StruggleBraveHonorAmericaVietnam
We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
Iyad Allawi
Thank YouAmericaYouSucceeding
Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
Kent Conrad
ThinkAmericanAmericaCountryMore
Imagine an America where the health care system is dramatically improved simply because people need to go to the doctor less. Preventive health care, aka taking care of your own body, is a sensible way to go!
Tara Stiles
HealthPeopleDoctorCareAmerica
England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
Gerald Scarfe
AmericaEverythingExcitingDull
When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
Bjarke Ingels
HellAmericaYouTimingWhyAsking
I love America, and parts of New Jersey remind me of Newfoundland - rolling hills and gardens - it's great! I guess that's why they call it the Garden State.
Neil Sedaka
LoveGreatMeAmericaGardenNew
It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
Mark Kurlansky
FoodTravelAmericaEasyYouTouch
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
SoulThinkAmericaOppositionLoyal
After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.
Gretchen Carlson
CollegeAmericaSayPayMissKids
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
Dwight Yoakam
MusicAmericaWhiteCountryBlues
You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and pick yourself up again. And putting yourself back together, that improves on what you were before.
Teyonah Parris
TogetherYourselfBlackAmericaYou
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison
AmericaArtistKindWhateverRights
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
Hayley Atwell
WorkAmericaStopSeriouslyMy Own
Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
Lemmy
Growing UpStupidAmericaGrowingUp
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
Tavis Smiley
WorkEducationAmericaProblemSkill
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