American Quotes

As Attorneys General, we have been on the front line defending the Constitution - and the American people - from a President driven to exercise government power over our freedoms, our rights, and our lives. We know that the Constitution limits federal power, but President Obama clearly believes those limits just get in his way.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

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.

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.