American Quotes

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.