American Quotes
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The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
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Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.
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I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
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After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.
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It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.
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If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
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I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.
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It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
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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.
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Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
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I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
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I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.
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For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
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Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.
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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.
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The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
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I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
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The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
