American Quotes
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
Rich Cohen
I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.
Frank McCourt
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
Marianne Williamson
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
Leonard Slatkin
Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.
Mitchell Joachim
As American citizens, if you believe all banks were bailed out, you would hate banks. I would, too.
Jamie Dimon
How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya Angelou
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
Martha Gellhorn
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
John Spratt
Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
Jacques d'Amboise
The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.
Matt Bevin
Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
Melanie Laurent