American Quotes

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I am a gay American.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.