American Quotes
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
The American Dream is ownership a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.