American Quotes

• When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

  

  George Gershwin
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time.

  

  David K. E. Bruce
  • Time
  • American
  • Support

• Of the American institutionalists, his most generous comments concerned Commons’s work, work that he regarded as hopelessly unsystematic but highly ‘suggestive and valuable’

  

  Frank Knight
  • Work
  • American

• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • Ambition
  • Abuse
  • Simplicity

• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  

  Jared Polis
  • American
  • America

• Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Believe
  • American

• In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.

  

  Li Lu
  • American
  • Peace
  • Chinese

• If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

  

  James Inhofe
  • American

• American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • American
  • Poetry

• I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

  

  JoBeth Williams
  • American
  • Mom
  • Forever

• I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

  

  Bojana Novakovic
  • Why
  • Home
  • American

• The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • American
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • War
  • Lost

• When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva

  

  Don McLean
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • Country
  • Die
  • Party

• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Cooking
  • Unknown

• On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Music
  • Country
  • American

• Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Order

• The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • World
  • American
  • Connection

• I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • American

• I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Character
  • American
  • Islam

• From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • War
  • Opinion
  • Slavery

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