American Quotes

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.