American Quotes

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

The American dream is about freedom.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.