Subject: Places » America (Page 2)

… as American as English muffins and French toast.

(1935 – ) English critic & author

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 suburbs are like the bleacher seats of life.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

Americans are like the straight, white man of cultures.

(1978 – ) Australian comedian, writer & actress

I went to San Francisco; I found someone's heart.


Don't let the whole world come here and see our stuff; it just pisses them off.

television executive & comedian

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

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 is still a land of promise, especially during a political campaign.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

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

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

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 might as well give them ours, we aren’t using it.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

(1898 – 1991) U.S. senator (Kentucky) & Major League Baseball commissioner

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

I enjoy being in America: it's fun, you know, because you have, you have so many things we never had in Russia — like warning shots.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist

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

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

(1974 – ) American comedian