Un American Quotes

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

[Facism] that incredibly loaded word we do not associate with the real American politics is being used by other conservatives, by other Republicans to talk about Donald Trump.

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?

President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers