American Quotes

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

My father was an all-American football player.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

I'm trying to be careful as much as I can eating this American food. Burgers are heavy. So, I'm trying to minimize that as much as I can.

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a lousy deal for the American economy. I felt there was a better way.

I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.