American Quotes

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

I'm very American.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.