American Quotes

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

I'm an American before any party preference.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.