Subject: Places » America (Page 3)

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country… and we haven’t seen them since.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

(1891 – 1980) novelist & painter

… as American as English muffins and French toast.

(1935 – ) English critic & author

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

I dropped out of West Point to become a comedian… probably the greatest service I will ever do for my country.

(1955 – ) American comedian

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

We would need less gun control is we had better birth control.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon landing was faked.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Un-American: Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a handgun than a packet of cigarettes.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Irish music columnist & journalist

Kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

America: A nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but can think of nothing to do when it gets there.

Only in America can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box whilst a draft dodger lives in the White House.

In America, you watch Big Brother; in Soviet Russia, Big Brother watches you!

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian