American Quotes

• The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anonymous

• Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • American
  • Program
  • Harm

• There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • American

• In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called 'GI Joe Millionaire.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Reality
  • Plans
  • Soldiers

• The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • American
  • Poetry
  • Legacy

• I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • American

• In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Human being
  • Built
  • Missouri

• I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Done
  • Culture
  • Italian

• The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Time
  • Kids
  • American

• We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Immigration
  • Cowboy

• President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • People
  • Job
  • Appreciation

• In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or - winner-take-all politics.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Politics
  • Conflict
  • Debate

• My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Work
  • American

• Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Family
  • Roots
  • Seeds

• I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

  

  Lennie James
  • American
  • Drama

• I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

  

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
  • Love
  • American
  • Gothic

• There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • American

• On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

  

  Ray Mabus
  • History
  • Military
  • Sailors

• Which means we’re cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than the Russians or anywhere else – and we’re doing it in the United States with American labour costs.

  

  Elon Musk
  • American
  • Chinese

• All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American

• KING: But you don't think the faith is violent? You don't think American Muslims are, by nature, violent, or Muslims are by nature violent or do you?

  

  James Dobson
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • King

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