American Quotes

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

My father was an all-American football player.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.