American Quotes
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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
George Gershwin
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I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
Aarti Sequeira
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It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.
Joe Kaeser
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We've got tremendous dumping of steel into our country and aluminum into our country - all manner of products being sold in our country at below cost, stealing American jobs or depressing wages.
Peter Navarro
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My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
Camille Paglia
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
Major Owens
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At the end of the day, I'm still an African-American woman in a male-dominated industry, so sometimes you have to deal with people not taking your ideas seriously. But I look at it as, I'd rather have adversities in something that I love than doing something that I hate or where I am not interested.
Karen Civil
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During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.
Cynthia P. Schneider
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
Sam Shepard
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Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.
Marjorie Liu
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
Zebulon Pike
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
La'Porsha Renae
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The American public no longer has confidence in Wall Street and we've got to change that.
Eliot Spitzer
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
Nancy Pelosi
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Instead of starting a new science magazine titled The Sciences, why didn't we start a new magazine with the old title Scientific American?
Dennis Flanagan
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There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.
Chadwick Boseman
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For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
John Edgar Wideman
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I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
Christian Kane
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Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
Paul Wolfowitz
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Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.
Uwe Boll
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I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.
Kevin Kwan
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You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.
Frank Hague
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I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed.
Barack Obama