Un American Quotes

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

One of the things which separates British and American culture is the reverence for the flag in American culture.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.