American Quotes

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?