American Quotes

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

I'm very American.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.