American Quotes

• 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.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • People
  • Performance
  • Standards

• The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • American
  • Existed
  • Velvet Underground

• There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • American
  • Age

• Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • American
  • Political
  • Guilty

• I am the penny whistle of American literature.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • American
  • Literature

• Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.

  

  John Fusco
  • American

• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  

  George Frisbie Hoar
  • Desire
  • Honorable
  • Speakers

• The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • American
  • Attitude
  • Proved

• American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Powerful
  • Planet
  • Audiences

• I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • American
  • Thing
  • Quote

• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  

  Rick Danko
  • American
  • Dream
  • Selfishness

• The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

  

  Katie Barberi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • President

• But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

  

  Richard Perle
  • Should
  • Peoples
  • Explicitly

• United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Opportunity
  • Wonderful
  • Retreat

• I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Born
  • Regret
  • Greenwich Village

• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Experience
  • Baseball
  • Tradition

• Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

  

  Sidney Buchman
  • American
  • Society
  • Contribution

• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • American
  • Dream
  • Growth

• The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

  

  Susan Stewart
  • Important
  • American
  • Poet

• Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • American
  • Dream
  • Guarantees

• While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Development
  • Research
  • Creating

• I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Great
  • Job
  • American

• Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Education
  • Because
  • Native

• 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.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Film
  • Beauty
  • Photographer

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