American Quotes

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

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.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.