Un American Quotes

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

American democracy has been hacked.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.