America Quotes

These are the future leaders of America, Detective, engaging in sex, drugs, and lecherous behavior. Makes me proud.

America needs to be saved from itself.

You can’t spell “America” without “Erica”.[Dustin Henderson: Don’t you love your country?]

The most dangerous enemy America faces is the enemy within. Traitors who play the long game. And they inflict the deepest wounds because people miss the warning signs.

I’m sorry. For lynching you. Hanged a dark-skinned man. Was in very poor taste. We’re in a weird, tense place racially in America, and I don’t want to add to that climate of hatred.[to Shadow]

You need to grow up. This is America. People don’t care where your fortune came from.[Jonah Byrde: People will find out where the money came from.]

You know why America loves a crime story? Because America is a crime story.

This is America. We don’t share land here.

This is America, right? Everybody buys a house they can’t afford.

They make their rules to be broken. The United States has broken every rule it has ever made. From its first treaty with France to every treaty with us, to their last treaty with Iran. They only hold others to their rules. They make war when they want, where they want, they take what they want, and then they make rules to keep you from taking it back. They make rules for the slave and they make rules for the masters.[to Thomas Rainwater]

The truth is America is not a democracy. The word “democracy” makes people feel safe. But the founders never trusted the masses, because the truth is, the masses are f***ing stupid. Anyone who owns a “Live, Laugh, Love” mug shouldn’t have a say in how a country is run. People are a labor force that need a kind, but firm hand. There are no nations. There’s Apple, Exxon and Berkshire Hathaway.

The American people don’t know what’s best for them. I do. I know exactly what they need. They’re like little children, Claire. Children we never had. We have to hold their sticky fingers and wipe their filthy mouths. Teach them right from wrong. Tell them what to think and how to feel and what to want. They even need help writing their wildest dreams, crafting their worst fears. Lucky for them, they have me. They have you. Underwood. Underwood 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036. One nation, Underwood.