American Quotes

We want to rescue the American dream.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

Kill the body and the head will die.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.