Un American Quotes

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Still humping the American Dream