American Quotes

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

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

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

American music culture is black culture.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

The power of the world always works in circles.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

I am so hip even my errors are correct

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

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

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

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

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.