I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
Edward Burnett TylorI definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
Al-Waleed bin TalalI feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daoud KhanThe American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafAmong American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.
Samuel G. FreedmanI wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore RooseveltYou can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.
William J. ClintonEach dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40.
Enrique Pena NietoThe American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.
Franklin D. RooseveltIntolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
J. William FulbrightEvery American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlinThe American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanDonald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history.
Milo YiannopoulosSanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
Colson WhiteheadEnglish vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
Deborah HarknessTo be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George SantayanaThe American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James A. BaldwinThe great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.
Jean Paul GaultierThe American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodVote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.
Walter E. WilliamsThe American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
William Carlos WilliamsI have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.
William H. TunnerWhoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people.
Osama bin LadenI would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
Abraham LincolnIf you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?
Ainsley EarhardtI think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
Clifford GeertzStatistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.
Demetri MartinIt [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
Jacques AudiardI understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
Laura Ingalls WilderTo an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
William Least Heat-MoonDEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
Ambrose BierceI've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.
Cathy McMorris RodgersTrump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.
David RemnickHurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
Douglas BrinkleyI think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.
Frances BeineckeJudge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.
Frank LautenbergHe sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
H. L. MenckenAnything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.
John IbbitsonMy aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
Juliette BinocheI'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
Leonard SlatkinIn the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
Maurice SamuelI know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.
Mike ThompsonAmerican Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.
Robert EnglundI always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
Robert EnglundIts a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
Timur BekmambetovIf a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign.
William J. ClintonAs long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
William SafireI am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools,
Bowe Bergdahl'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.
David BenioffI was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
David Hyde PierceI'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Emmanuel JalWithout God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.
Gerald R. FordLet's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.
Hillary ClintonI am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
Jackie CollinsI'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.
Jacoby EllsburyAll I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Martha GriffithsObamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
Michael MoriartyI learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.
Roberto De VicenzoI can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Scott RitterI will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.
Sholom AleichemI feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].
Ansel ElgortAnd terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.
Barack ObamaIf we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.
Barack ObamaWe did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.
Bernie SandersIf honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.
George CarlinWhat students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.
George WashingtonToo many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.
Hillary ClintonAmerican English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
J. R. R. TolkienI think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
James EllroyAmerican straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
Lorraine HansberryI regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.
Michelle ShockedThe problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
Rick WarrenAnybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.
Ronald ReaganThere's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
Ronald ReaganTake that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).
Rush LimbaughJerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.
Ornette ColemanHe speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
Don DeLilloProducing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
Frank ZappaDisparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
George WillIt's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.
Henry BonillaThe western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.
Herman MelvilleOne might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
Isadora DuncanThe American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
John SununuI will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.
Loretta LynchI learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.
Lynne TillmanHale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.
Nathan HaleI am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.
Rayvon OwenThe Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!
Red ButtonsThe American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
Rudyard KiplingIt is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win...
Vince LombardiI turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
Abraham LincolnIt is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.
Adolphus BuschOne of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMy God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?
Dodie SmithThe frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
Frederick Jackson TurnerSpecies conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
Ian SomerhalderWe had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.
Jamie DimonThere is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Jean RenoirWe are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,
Joe Biden...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
Liam NeesonMr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.
Mark LathamAmerican philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.
Robert L. PaytonThere is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
Susan SontagEvery American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
Theodore WhiteThe Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
Wendell PierceTitles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
William Makepeace ThackerayIf Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
Anastas MikoyanThe real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Bernardine DohrnThe American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.
Bernie SandersI'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
Bill BrysonAmerican politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.
Bryce DessnerI am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.
Don KingI think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
Elie WieselThe American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.
Ezra KleinAll that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.
Frank ZappaThe American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.
Fred BarnesIf the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.
George H. W. BushHalf the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
Gore VidalThe impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
John SteinbeckEducation is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.
Mary McLeod BethuneMichael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.
Michael Eric DysonI didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.
Paul BegalaThe principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.
Robert F. WilliamsWhat's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
Rupert EverettI ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
Tim KaineThe Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.
Van JonesThe American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!
Bernie SandersThere's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.
Craig FinnI just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
Drew BarrymoreYes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.
Gloria GaynorI assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.
Gore VidalPhiladelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
H. L. Mencken'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
Jay McInerneyAsian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
John ChoAmerican radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.
Linda RonstadtThe American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
Ralph RegulaWe will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
Ronald ReaganFour times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodThe Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodFour times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.
Rush LimbaughThe Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.
Rush LimbaughI always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
Sara ParetskyParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Sinclair LewisThe dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
William A. Henry IIIShe behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Oscar WildeI like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.
Andrew PuzderIt's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.
Bernie SandersBeing an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
Herb RittsCredentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
Jane JacobsMy guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.
John OatesIf you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.
John SwartzwelderThe search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
Jonah GoldbergI think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.
Kevin GutzmanI don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.
Lee Van CleefA basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobMusic is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael TippettA cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
Robert K. MertonAmerican capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
Sergei EisensteinThinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian, not American.
Stephen ColbertSince I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.
Thomas SteinbeckIf you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.
Ty PenningtonI don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.
Vijay PrashadPresident Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
Vladimir PutinYou can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream
Warren ZevonAn American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
Winston ChurchillYou try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
Barbara BushTV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
Bennett CerfAmerican comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaSubstantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
Charles SchumerI couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan. Votes: 2 Shuji Nakamura
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival. Votes: 6 Bernice Johnson Reagon
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans. Votes: 1 Eliot Engel
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. Votes: 3 Janice Dickinson
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. Votes: 3 Conan O'Brien
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Votes: 1 Barack Obama
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission. Votes: 1 Faye Wattleton
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. Votes: 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. Votes: 1 Billy Idol
My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel. Votes: 2 Cindy Sheehan
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. Votes: 0 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. Votes: 1 Jackie Chan
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. Votes: 1 Rick Atkinson
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. Votes: 3 Conor Oberst
I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. Votes: 1 Liz Phair
Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world. Votes: 1 Peter Welch
We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference. Votes: 6 LL Cool J
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. Votes: 3 Ken Auletta
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. Votes: 1 Carmen Dell'Orefice
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Votes: 1 Timothy Noah
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. Votes: 3 Dick Gregory
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic. Votes: 1 Viggo Mortensen
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. Votes: 2 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. Votes: 1 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War. Votes: 5 David Icke
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. Votes: 1 Caroline Knapp
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution. Votes: 3 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. Votes: 1 Michael K. Simpson
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Votes: 4 Johnny Depp
I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case. Votes: 5 Matt Groening
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. Votes: 3 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. Votes: 3 Chellie Pingree
The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables. Votes: 3 Joel Fuhrman
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. Votes: 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. Votes: 5 Franklin D. Roosevelt
So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy. Votes: 1 Rodrigo Rato
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. Votes: 5 Paul Erdos
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. Votes: 3 Gore Vidal
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Votes: 6 Barack Obama
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' Votes: 3 Terry Teachout
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. Votes: 3 Stephen Colbert
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow. Votes: 1 Isabel Wilkerson
We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind. Votes: 3 Esai Morales
American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm. Votes: 2 Jerry Moran
The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in. Votes: 3 Lloyd Kaufman
If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag. Votes: 7 Antonio Villaraigosa
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. Votes: 1 Brendan Fraser
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. Votes: 3 Gore Vidal
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. Votes: 5 Neil Gaiman
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure. Votes: 5 Calvin Coolidge
I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics. Votes: 1 Stephen Furst
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy. Votes: 5 Nathan Fillion
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. Votes: 5 James A. Baldwin
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. Votes: 3 Ethan Suplee
American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. Votes: 1 Taissa Farmiga
We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do. Votes: 3 Marlee Matlin
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. Votes: 4 C. L. R. James
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. Votes: 6 H. Rap Brown
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. Votes: 3 P. J. O'Rourke
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. Votes: 2 Rand Paul
For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001. Votes: 2 Zach Wamp
The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it. Votes: 2 Reza Aslan
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization. Votes: 3 P. J. O'Rourke
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. Votes: 1 Ralph Bakshi
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there. Votes: 3 Yogi Berra
I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. Votes: 3 Felice Picano
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures. Votes: 5 Robert Green Ingersoll
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show. Votes: 3 Mike Birbiglia
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Votes: 6 Wilbur Smith
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Votes: 3 Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. Votes: 1 Marya Mannes
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. Votes: 5 Emilio Aguinaldo
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. Votes: 4 Bill Maher
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. Votes: 1 Feisal Abdul Rauf
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? Votes: 3 Queen Latifah
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Votes: 3 Ron Paul
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Votes: 3 Sinclair Lewis
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. Votes: 3 Eric Hobsbawm
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)] Votes: 3 John F. Kennedy
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has. Votes: 6 Don McLean
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Votes: 2 Diane Wakoski
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. Votes: 3 Jeane Kirkpatrick
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. Votes: 2 Byron Dorgan
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen." Votes: 3 Noam Chomsky
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. Votes: 6 Bob Geldof
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. Votes: 2 Newt Gingrich
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent. Votes: 1 Jay McInerney
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness. Votes: 3 Andrew Weil
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world. Votes: 4 Lyndon B. Johnson
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Votes: 6 Woodrow Wilson
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. Votes: 1 Rand Paul
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. Votes: 1 Denis Johnson
Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security. Votes: 2 Joe Biden
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. Votes: 3 Theodore Sturgeon
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. Votes: 3 Hal Moore
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. Votes: 1 Hillary Clinton
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility. Votes: 3 Albert Goodwill Spalding
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. Votes: 3 Serj Tankian
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy. Votes: 1 Hillary Clinton
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. Votes: 1 Chesty Puller
I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.' Votes: 1 Hugh Laurie
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!' Votes: 1 Adam Davidson
In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. Votes: 1 Jeff Greenfield
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. Votes: 5 George Soros
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. Votes: 3 Shawn Amos
I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials. Votes: 3 Lenny Kravitz
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange. Votes: 3 Gilbert Sorrentino
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. Votes: 1 W. Edwards Deming
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? Votes: 3 Said Sayrafiezadeh
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. Votes: 3 John Cheever
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Votes: 1 Sherman Alexie
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Votes: 1 Marshall McLuhan
I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions. Votes: 4 Susan Sarandon
I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community. Votes: 6 Jeremy Lin
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally. Votes: 3 Bharati Mukherjee
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters. Votes: 3 Charlie Norwood
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority. Votes: 5 Pearl S. Buck
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire. Votes: 1 Joe Scarborough
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. Votes: 1 Natasha Trethewey
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point. Votes: 1 Daniel Suarez
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. Votes: 1 Stewart Udall
I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino. Votes: 1 Jessica Sanchez
Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one. Votes: 3 Catherine Malandrino
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Votes: 6 Theodore Sturgeon
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Votes: 1 W. Somerset Maugham
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. Votes: 4 Martin Scorsese
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. Votes: 4 Vinny Guadagnino
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives. Votes: 6 Henry A. Wallace
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. Votes: 3 Noam Chomsky
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. Votes: 1 Sebastian Arcelus
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. Votes: 1 Stephane Hessel
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. Votes: 2 Kanye West
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. Votes: 4 Joe Baca
I believe we could see a North American Union formed. Why else are our borders with Mexico and Canada being left wide open some six years into a War on Terror? Votes: 1 George Noory
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east. Votes: 4 Rebecca Solnit
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. Votes: 4 John Henrik Clarke
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East. Votes: 1 Benjamin Netanyahu
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. Votes: 2 Michelle Obama
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. Votes: 2 Bill Cosby
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. Votes: 1 Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! Votes: 4 Harry S Truman
I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. Votes: 5 Bruce Springsteen