Americas Quotes (page 75)

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• always
• complexity
• doings

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. Jerry Garcia

• tired
• lived
• you

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live. Greta Garbo

• war
• question
• guards

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Jeff Gannon

• gift
• strong
• greatness

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. Elton Gallegly

• peace
• severity
• defects

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. Maggie Gallagher

• children
• black
• adulting

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. Maggie Gallagher

• ignorance
• may
• world

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. Eduardo Galeano

• success
• support
• manly

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself. Christopher Gadsden

• new
• world
• people

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. Muammar al-Gaddafi

• thinking
• people
• rock

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think. Annette Funicello

• people
• worth
• compared

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. Margaret Fuller

• powerful
• world
• intelligent

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. J. William Fulbright

• soul
• empirical
• highs

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. J. William Fulbright

• latin
• condone
• state

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. Carlos Fuentes

• black
• latin
• spanish

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. Carlos Fuentes