American Quotes

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

['American Dream' will be released] probably never.Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema.

'American Dream' is a small little movie made for under a million dollars. Totally independent feature.

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.

Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Long before "American Idol" people used to call me a diva. And I be like, "Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva."

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.