American Quotes

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

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.