American Quotes

• The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.

  

  Matthew Stewart
  • God
  • History
  • True

• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Time
  • America
  • Pretty

• Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Today
  • Career
  • Professional

• Needless to say, it was the greatest of privileges to serve with the selfless men and women - Iraqi and American and those of our coalition partners, civilian as well as military - who did the hard, dangerous work of the surge. There seldom was an easy period; each day was tough.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Way

• A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Writing
  • American
  • Soldier

• I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Pretty

• The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • American

• One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

  

  Neville Marriner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • American
  • Service
  • Balance

• 'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American.

  

  Ben Cardin
  • American

• We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Children

• In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Great
  • Truth
  • American

• The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • American
  • Promise

• I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • American
  • Literature

• The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • American

• As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

  

  George McGovern
  • American

• It's very American, making a lot of money.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Money
  • American

• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • War
  • Military

• Immigration security, we need to protect American jobs. We need to protect American safety. We're going to build a wall folks, don't worry, we're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your heads will spin. And you'll say, 'you know, know he meant it!' And you know what else I mean? Mexico is going to pay for the wall.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Worry
  • Wall

• My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • Community
  • Chicago

• There's a whole generation in England who think I'm American, thanks to 'The Walking Dead.' It's an interesting phenomenon of being an actor longer than 25 years because you can tell what people know you from.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Walking

• What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Up
  • American

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