American Quotes
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When I was young, kids who were more Native American than me would call me 'white boy.' To my white friends, I was 'that Indian kid.'
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The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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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.
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
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My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
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I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run ... I have been consistently vague on all the issues ... Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
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I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script.
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The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
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And now, the American people, proud of our country, proud of our freedom, proud of ourselves, will reject the San Francisco Democrats and send Ronald Reagan back to the White House.
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Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
Charles B. Rangel -
I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.
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Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.
