American Quotes

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

I don't think there is much American music.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

American leadership is essential.

People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.