American Quotes
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
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I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
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There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.
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My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.
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I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
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An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
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We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
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What's next? Orgy rooms? Menage a trois rooms? All this coedness is outside normal life. Most average American adults don't use coed bathrooms - if they had the option of a coed bathroom at a public restaurant, they wouldn't choose it.
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In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.
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I was brought up on American films.
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While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
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Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'
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I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
