Subject: Places » America (Page 4)

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to accommodate all these singing shows.

(1974 – ) American comedian

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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

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

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing – and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

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

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.

Canadian writer & speaker

Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

My God, we've had cloning in the South for years… it's called cousins.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

What middle class? … there's only seven people left in the middle class – who cares about them?

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

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

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

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

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everyone and still nobody likes him.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

America – a country that has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

(1905 – 1970) American writer

If you persecute somebody just because they might look a little different, then you are no better than our country's founding fathers.

American comedian & writer

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care. 

Canadian comedian & author

I've always tried to be a good American citizen, so I have made it a point not to learn any other language but English.

stand-up comedian

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

(1938 – ) journalist, columnist (Miss Manners)