American Quotes

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

I'm living the American dream.

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.