American Quotes

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I am a gay American.