Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of story.

There is no Croatian dream. There is no European Union dream. There is no Chinese communist dream, except maybe to get out. But there is and always has been an American dream. And the dream is possible. The dream can become real.

I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

I dare say, ladies and gentlemen, it's even worse in some people, it's worse than the mistake they make in just assuming that there is the world and everything in it, and then there's America. And this one special place just happened. No thought's given to how. No thought's given to replicating it, even. No, that's where it gets even worse. Where it gets even worse is that some of those who look at the United States for what it is, special, no place like it on earth. Want to tear it down for that specific reason just because it's unfair.

America hasn't been leading anything. We have been blamed the last eight years [2008-2016]. The United States has been nothing special about us. American exceptionalism was mocked and laughed at.

Let's make America great again.

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.

Together, we will make America great again.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.