American Quotes

It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

Donald Trump is going to remain completely focused on American citizens and people who are here legally, and how we get this country working for people who play by the rules.

The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.

Donald Trump is more concerned about the American people, American citizens, people who are here legally, people that are struggling in this economy.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American dream. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

Our enemies will respond only to American strength.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

American citizens were targeted and nothing is going to be done about it.

One thing that I get from a lot of people with American Gods is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.