American Quotes
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I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.
Emily Raboteau
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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
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The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
John Podhoretz
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
Alexander Jackson Davis
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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael Tippett
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The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
Michael Mandelbaum
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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.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
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Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
Mike Singletary
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I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.
Nick Viall
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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
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
Evan Osnos
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I am the penny whistle of American literature.
Nelson Algren
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It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
Ezra Pound
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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
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And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson
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There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.
Richard Trumka
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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
Jon Meacham
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The idea that industry is important and therefore must be run by government is one of the ugliest and least American concepts out there.
Bill Whittle
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I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.
Eric Garcetti
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
Laurie Anderson
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Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.
William Commanda