American Quotes

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment ca...

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, fre...

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis ...

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest to...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was ...

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy i...

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a ve...

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in...

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t...

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. T...

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient lite...

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purs...

American politics is always an open competition.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next day...

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that the...

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

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're hap...

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't...

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the w...

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate ...

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings h...

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're...

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas...

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and...

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought t...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants,...

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Ea...

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the H...

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage ...

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes exper...

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points a...

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endors...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or ...

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered ...

...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the ...

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, whic...

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the pri...

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send ...

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecke...

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

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accompli...

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed wi...

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly...

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arre...

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis...

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are...

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch ...

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not...

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o...

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middl...

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was...

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize th...

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in...

When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before...

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about ...

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovat...

You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again belie...

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political p...

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that...

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the A...

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American as...

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. F...

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U...

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in...

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked...

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda...

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the...

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American p...

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world...

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the co...

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a M...

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the ...