American Quotes

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

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.