American Quotes

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.

Black history is American history.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.