American Quotes

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?

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

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

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.