American Quotes

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

I like American history.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.