American Quotes

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.