My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America’s Most Wanted. – Yancy Butler
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don’t like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War. – Samantha Power
Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel. – Tim Murphy
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world. – Stephen Gaghan
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice. – Zainab Salbi
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can’t have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn’t learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over. – Walter Kirn
You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we’ve been working for years on doing more and more in the United States. – Tim Cook
There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we’re so happy in America I actually can’t see us ever leaving… People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes. – Victoria Beckham
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century – the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba – failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. – Stephane Hessel
I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn’t realise that in America you can’t go into the room and put yourself down. – Sophie Winkleman
I’d like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there’s some factory there, and it’s abandoned, and I’d like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America. – will.i.am
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. – Wolfgang Puck
The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America’s going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump. – Virgil Goode
I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It’s all been a wonderful accident. I’m still amazed every time I finish a film. – Stephen Frears
Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive. – Sung Kang
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s. – will.i.am
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America’s policy toward Iraq, a debate that’s been sadly lacking. – Scott Ritter
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation’s leading colleges become even less diverse. – Wendy Kopp
When I think of the trials and tribulations that black men go through in America and that black artists went through, I feel very privileged. – Ving Rhames
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution. – William Jennings Bryan
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. – Warren Farrell
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. – Thomas Jefferson
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago. – Tommy Franks
I don’t have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that’s the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. – Sloan Wilson
We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages. – Steve Marriott
America – it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. – Thomas Wolfe