American Quotes

• There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

  

  Joely Richardson
  • American
  • Taken
  • English

• It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

  

  David Thewlis
  • American
  • Daughter

• People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • People
  • Today
  • Revolution

• Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Path

• I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Home
  • Law

• Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

  

  John Cho
  • American

• Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Why
  • Play
  • Waiting

• I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

  

  James F. Byrnes
  • People
  • Hope
  • Peace

• With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • America
  • War

• I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

  

  Denis Leary
  • American

• Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • People
  • Respect
  • Quality

• The American male runs half of the global world and grows up on rock music from day one. If you can alter the psyche of someone who's growing up to be a rapist or a total misogynist, you're creating values and instead of making the void bigger, you're making it smaller.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

  

  Austin O'Malley
  • American

• Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Great
  • Champion

• Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • American
  • Anxiety

• There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

  

  Allen West
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Important
  • Why
  • America

• Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Power
  • American
  • Soldier

• People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

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

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • American
  • Poetry

• I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Military

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