America quotes

“- Mr. Edwards: The people used to ask themselves what they could do for America...
- Rocky: Shut up!
- Mr. Edwards: ...before they asked themselves. You know, it's kids like you that are poisoning this country to the core!”

Ed Metzger - Mr. Edwards
Mischa Barton - Rocky

“In America I believe the ordinary meets the extraordinary every single day.”
Bradley Cooper - Neil Walker

“Children! Running around, all hours of the night! When you kids grow up, you'll be living in the Soviet Union of America!”

Harry Shearer - G. Gordon Liddy

“The better the teacher, the better the future of America.”
Eve Arden

“I know how to handle America. Give me the pistol.”
Barkhad Abdi - Muse

“- Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
- Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, it's not U.S. strategy.
- Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
- Gust Avrakotos: Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one....” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture.”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“Cut that out you Argentine degenerate! That's my brother's place your robbin' there. This ain't some filthy little jail in Caracas, this is A-mer-i-ca!”
Eric Roberts - Paulie

“America's heavy manufacturing is dead.”

Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“Guns have become part of America's wardrobe.”
John Cusack - Father Mike Corridan

“Every credit card application we send in, we get two more in the mail. Here's one from some bank I've never heard of, in North Dakota. Fill it out. Fill them all in. It's the last great pyramid scheme in America.”

William H. Macy - James Gordon

What makes America the best government? The passion that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Sure you call it "capitalism", "free market", "celebration of tariff breakdowns". I have another word for it: love.
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor

“What I am is a true American hero. Now, the President of the United States of America said that, and you heard it.”
Johnny Depp - Commander Spencer Armacost

“This probably is, now that I think about it, the biggest fuck-up in the history of American law enforcement.”
David Harbour - Gordon Shanklin

“- Sheriff Chris Mannix: May I sit down, sir?
- General Sandy Smithers: According to the Yankees, it's a free country.”
Walton Goggins - Sheriff Chris Mannix
Bruce Dern - General Sandy Smithers

“There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.”
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“When it comes time for a rest, there's no place like Cleveland.”
Jack Lemmon - President Russell P. Kramer

“We will rise renewed, stronger, and united. This is our time. Our chance to get back to the best of who we are. To lead by example with the dignity, integrity, and honor that built this country. And which will build it once again. May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.”
Aaron Eckhart - President Benjamin Asher

“- Ivan Danko: I do not understand this sport.
- Art Ridzik: You're not supposed to, it's completely American.
- Ivan Danko: We play baseball now in Soviet Union.
- Art Ridzik: Are you kidding me? This is our national pastime!”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Ivan Danko
Jim Belushi - Art Ridzik

“World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1,177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls...and through the trial, we overcame.”
Kate Beckinsale - Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson

“You don't change Chinatown, it changes you.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

“Everyone in America thinks they're middle class. So they like to have someone to look down on.”
Seth Meyers - Chet Krogl

“Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?”
Steve Guttenberg

“This seems to be the last chapter in the history of American involvement in Vietnam. It's also been the largest single movement of people in the history of America itself. Hilary Brown, ABC News, aboard the attack aircraft carrier, USS Hancock, in the South China Sea.”
Hilary Brown - Hilary Brown

“As the President of the United States, this comes with the full weight, power and authority of my office. Fuck you.”

Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer