American Quotes
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
Wilfrid Sheed
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I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.
Chen Guangcheng
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
Blanche Lincoln
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
Laurie Helgoe
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American policy makers must understand that the activists and young people who started Yemen’s peaceful revolution deeply respect the United States and Western civilization...We call on American officials to engage with the leaders of Yemen’s democracy movement and abandon their misplaced investment in the old regime’s security apparatus
Tawakkol Karman
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I like the American style. I love L.A. They have a completely different way of dressing.
Jenny Packham
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We've made it crystal clear to the American people what we're against. We need to talk about a couple of other things - what are we for?
Bill Flores
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I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.
Gene Luen Yang
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I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.
Chloe Kim
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Sarbanes-Oxley costs the American people money. It costs jobs. It costs our competitiveness. It hurts our markets.
Mallory Factor
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Barack Obama
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
Chloe Kim
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner
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No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
Dennis Prager
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Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
Natalie Massenet
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People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'
Ana Navarro
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I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
Camila Alves
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
Edmund Morgan
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya Angelou
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Georgia, like Ukraine and Moldova, is a sovereign state. If we accept, in practice, that Russia can alter borders by force, we signal to Moscow that it can violate international norms with impunity. We can hardly then complain if the Kremlin meddles in American elections, or orders murders on British soil.
Daniel Hannan
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Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.
Mark Kennedy
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American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
Barack Obama