Un American Quotes

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.