American Quotes

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

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. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.