American Quotes
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
Laurence Yep
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There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
Karin Slaughter
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Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.
Randall Jarrell
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I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
Keith Stanfield
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American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.
John Shadegg
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As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.
Kevin Brady
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No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
James K. Polk
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
Frederick Reines
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The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
Martha McSally
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
Walter Wager
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The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
Cynthia McKinney
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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
James Lafferty
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You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.
Barack Obama
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I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Betty Hill
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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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Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
Linda Chavez
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The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
Larry Fitzgerald
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Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.
Peter Welch
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
Ken Auletta
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Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
John Fleming
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
Ted Nugent
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I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
Daniel Suarez