American Quotes
-
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
-
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
-
Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.
-
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.
-
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.
-
You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.
-
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
-
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
-
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
-
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.
-
If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
-
I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
-
We are American at puberty. We die French.
-
I love American food, but I also love Latin food.
-
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
-
The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.
-
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
-
The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
-
In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.
-
An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
-
After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.
-
I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
-
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.
-
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
