American Quotes
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In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
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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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I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
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I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.
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I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.
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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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I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.
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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've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
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My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.
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Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.
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It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
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We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
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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.
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With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
