American Quotes

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.