America quotes

“- Raphelson: You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!
- President Sawyer: Then consider this a coup d'état!”
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“To live in a country where you can take an ugly old mountain and put faces on it, faces of great Americans who did so much to make our country super great. Well, that makes me Rebecca Leeman, proud to be an American.”
Denise Richards - Rebecca 'Becky' Ann Leeman

“For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised.”
Anthony LaPaglia

“I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”
Anthony LaPaglia

“- President Benjamin Asher: The United States of America doesn't negotiate with terrorists!
- Kang: Who said anything about negotiating?”
Aaron Eckhart - President Benjamin Asher
Rick Yune - Kang

“- Benjamin Martin: May I sit with you?
- Charlotte Selton: It's a free country. Or at least it will be.”

Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin
Joely Richardson - Charlotte Selton

“- Eddie: You people caused quite a stir.
- Jack McGurn: It was a legal demonstration, sir. Perfectly within the Constitution.
- Eddie: Well, all that striking stuff is over now, mister. When Japs step on the beach, you think they'll take any notice of your banners? They'll stick a bayonet in your belly, grievance or no grievance. This is America...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul A. DiCocco Jr. - Eddie
Dennis Quaid - Jack McGurn

“It was an opportunity for me to defend America. The country which has given freedom to me and to my family. And it is an honor to fight for that freedom.”

Laz Alonso - Ramon Escobar

“There is an ill, Mr. Epps. A fearful ill resting upon this nation. And there will be a day of reckoning yet.”
Brad Pitt - Bass

“- Joseph Palmi: Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about your people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?
- Edward Wilson: The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.”
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson

“- Bethany: Were they sent to Hell?
- Metatron: Worse. Wisconsin. For the entire span of human history.”
Linda Fiorentino - Bethany
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Taxi Driver: You talk funny!
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: You talk funny too! Where are you from?
- Taxi Driver: Transylvania!
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: That's where Pittsburgh is.”
Allan Katz - Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga

When the second plane hit the tower, his chief of staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush the nation is under attack. Not knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and with no secret service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there, and continued to read "My Pet Goat" with the children.

Michael Francis Moore - Michael Moore

“To those who threaten our freedom: America will rise up. And make no mistake; we will find you, and we will destroy you.”
Morgan Freeman - VP Allan Trumbull

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

David Strathairn - Edward R. Murrow

Before the Civil War, the states were all separate. People used to say "United States are". Wasn't until the war ended, people started saying "The United States is". Under Lincoln, we became one nation.
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“I never wanted anything as much as I wanted to be an American.”
Will Smith - Dr. Bennet Omalu

“- Gov. George Wallace: Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.”
Tim Roth - Gov. George Wallace
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Snake Plissken: Got a smoke?
- Cmdr. Malloy: The United States is a no-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. No women - unless of course you're married. No guns, no foul language... no red meat.
- Snake Plissken: Land of the free.”
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken
Stacy Keach - Cmdr. Malloy

“- Pu Yi - 15 Years: Who is this George Washington?
- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president.
- Pu Yi - 15 Years: Like Mr. Lenin in Russia?
- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: Not quite.”
Tao Wu - Pu Yi - 15 Years
Peter O'Toole - Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston

“We live in a country where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him, not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me God!”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“We cannot have him remembered as a conspirator in the assassination of the man that brought this nation together.”

Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“Hey, you want to talk Mexican? Join another tank, a Mexican tank. This is an American tank, we talk American.”

Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball...”
Steve Carrell - Mark Baum

“Mariátegui speaks of the revolutionary potential of the natives and farm workers of Latin America. He says the problem of the Indian is the problem of the land and that the revolution should not be an imitation. It should be original and indigenous.”
Gustavo Bueno - Dr. Hugo Pesce (Peru)