American Quotes

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

The American Dream is really money.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.