American Quotes

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

I'm also a big American Idol fan. I think it's just great fun.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

I get overwhelming support in the African-American community.

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

We were with Hayden Schlossberg enormous fans of that first American Pie. We were in college when it came out, and we watched it over and over and over again.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

The American dream itself is declining.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

I love the American way of life.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

I'm a Native American actress.