Un American Quotes

Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck. This guy's policies are aimed at destroying the age of American greatness.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

America hasn't been leading anything. We have been blamed the last eight years [2008-2016]. The United States has been nothing special about us. American exceptionalism was mocked and laughed at.

John F. Kennedy loved America. He was proud to be an American. And you'd call that politician JFK. That's who he was. He was not in any way a liberal as you know liberals today.

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.

Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

American literature has always been immigrant.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

We need to be fighting and rallying around the common American values. This is where the Democratic Party needs to learn and grow as we move forward.

What a glorious morning this is!

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.