American Quotes

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

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.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.