American Quotes

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.