American Quotes

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

I let the American people down.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.