American Quotes
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As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
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I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
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The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
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The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
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American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
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For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.
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For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.
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All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.
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When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
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While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?
