Un American Quotes

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

Trump has the courage to stand up to Wall Street, to the K Street lobbyists, and say our trade deals have not been best for the ordinary, average citizen American.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

American politics is always an open competition.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people, ' who created the government that Americans still live under.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.