America Quotes

• "The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they’re being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt."
  By: Dave Barry (Dave Barry does Japan)
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• "Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron – cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency."
  By: Dave Barry (Dave Barry does Japan)
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• "We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption."
  By: Dave Barry (Dave Barry Talks Back)
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• "It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to “get involved” in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements."
  By: Dave Barry (Dave Barry Talks Back)
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• "I miss America. I miss the crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it."
  By: Charles Barkley (During his stay in Barcelona for 92 Olympics)
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• "Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!"
  By: Bob Hope (My Life in Jokes)
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• "The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government."
  By: Bob Hope (I owe Russia $1200)
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• "Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?"
  By: Bob Hope
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• "She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all."
  By: Bob Hope (I owe Russia $1200)
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• "Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
  By: Billy Crystal
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• "One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph."
  By: Theodore Roosevelt
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• "Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls."
  By: Archibald MacLeish
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• "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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