Un American Quotes

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

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 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.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

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 survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

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

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.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

We want to rescue the American dream.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.