Un American Quotes

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

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.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those, I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.