American Quotes

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

Race has no place in American life or law.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it's Chapter 11.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

None so blind as those who won't see.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.