American Quotes

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.