American Quotes
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces in 1968. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
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I've met so many new fans and amazing people while traveling to new cities and locations throughout 2017 in support of my album 'American Teen.'
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
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It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
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The American elite does not have any real image of peace - other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.
