Un American Quotes

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Remove yourself, sir!

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.