American Quotes

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

American workers are first rate.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.