American Quotes

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

There's plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.

Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

I want manufacturing to be back into the United States so that American workers can benefit.

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans.

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.