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Quotes and aphorisms on American People part 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.<\/span>
\nW. E. B. Du Bois<\/span><\/p>\n

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.<\/span>
\nNorman Cousins<\/span><\/p>\n

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.<\/span>
\nWilliam Howard Taft<\/span><\/p>\n

I really have the American dream licked.<\/span>
\nTed Nugent<\/span><\/p>\n

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.<\/span>
\nGeorge Soros<\/span><\/p>\n

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.<\/span>
\nJimmy Carter<\/span><\/p>\n

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.<\/span>
\nAlfred Hitchcock<\/span><\/p>\n

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.<\/span>
\nMarshall McLuhan<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn’t matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he’s fine. If it doesn’t work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won’t matter.<\/span>
\nGeorge Will<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.<\/span>
\nGeorge Will<\/span><\/p>\n

Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.<\/span>
\nGeorge Will<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.<\/span>
\nE. B. White<\/span><\/p>\n

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.<\/span>
\nJean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/p>\n

Who’s judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!<\/span>
\nChris Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

I heard stories from my mother’s mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.<\/span>
\nTina Turner<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn’t mean that we’re going to agree.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world’s greatest athletes.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.<\/span>
\nHillary Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.<\/span>
\nGerald R. Ford<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations – the atmospheric pressure, you might say – of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.<\/span>
\nJack Henry Abbott<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.<\/span>
\nShane West<\/span><\/p>\n

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.<\/span>
\nW. H. Auden<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it’s sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.<\/span>
\nOrlando Bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.<\/span>
\nMario Cuomo<\/span><\/p>\n

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.<\/span>
\nJames Thurber<\/span><\/p>\n

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.<\/span>
\nPatrick Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

What we’re discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.<\/span>
\nNancy Pelosi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.<\/span>
\nNancy Pelosi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they’re about to face.<\/span>
\nNancy Pelosi<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like the American media – particularly Fox.<\/span>
\nNeil Young<\/span><\/p>\n

Black history is American history.<\/span>
\nMorgan Freeman<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.<\/span>
\nMorgan Freeman<\/span><\/p>\n

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.<\/span>
\nPearl S. Buck<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.<\/span>
\nSpiro T. Agnew<\/span><\/p>\n

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.<\/span>
\nLeslie Caron<\/span><\/p>\n

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.<\/span>
\nDavid Foster Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel’s willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.<\/span>
\nYitzhak Rabin<\/span><\/p>\n

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/span>
\nSteven Spielberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour.<\/span>
\nMike Myers<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.<\/span>
\nRussell Baker<\/span><\/p>\n

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.<\/span>
\nMax Beerbohm<\/span><\/p>\n

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.<\/span>
\nGeorgia O’Keeffe<\/span><\/p>\n

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.<\/span>
\nWilliam J. Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.<\/span>
\nWilliam J. Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.<\/span>
\nArthur Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.<\/span>
\nSinclair Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.<\/span>
\nAllen West<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it’s antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.<\/span>
\nAllen West<\/span><\/p>\n

When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.<\/span>
\nAllen West<\/span><\/p>\n

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.<\/span>
\nErica Jong<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.<\/span>
\nWhoopi Goldberg<\/span><\/p>\n

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.<\/span>
\nWhoopi Goldberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, I think that’s sort of the American way. And it’s also the Polish way, it turns out.<\/span>
\nBill Murray<\/span><\/p>\n

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.<\/span>
\nAngela Merkel<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.<\/span>
\nEtta James<\/span><\/p>\n

When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic.<\/span>
\nTony Campolo<\/span><\/p>\n

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.<\/span>
\nHenry B. Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.<\/span>
\nHenry B. Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.<\/span>
\nEthel Waters<\/span><\/p>\n

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?<\/span>
\nTyra Banks<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.<\/span>
\nWallace Stevens<\/span><\/p>\n

‘American Dad’ is, by its nature, much more political.<\/span>
\nSeth MacFarlane<\/span><\/p>\n

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.<\/span>
\nGrover Cleveland<\/span><\/p>\n

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.<\/span>
\nGrover Cleveland<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.<\/span>
\nVivien Leigh<\/span><\/p>\n

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.<\/span>
\nJon Stewart<\/span><\/p>\n

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.<\/span>
\nJon Stewart<\/span><\/p>\n

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.<\/span>
\nJacques Maritain<\/span><\/p>\n

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.<\/span>
\nJohn Ciardi<\/span><\/p>\n

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.<\/span>
\nJohn Cleese<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.<\/span>
\nCondoleezza Rice<\/span><\/p>\n

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Warren<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.<\/span>
\nThomas E. Mann<\/span><\/p>\n

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.<\/span>
\nIsadora Duncan<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don’t realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.<\/span>
\nJack LaLanne<\/span><\/p>\n

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.<\/span>
\nBen Harper<\/span><\/p>\n

If a prospective Presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t “sail” anyway. Send it back for further thought.<\/span>
\nDonald Rumsfeld<\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.<\/span>
\nDonald Rumsfeld<\/span><\/p>\n

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.<\/span>
\nDonald Rumsfeld<\/span><\/p>\n

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.<\/span>
\nMichael Bloomberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.<\/span>
\nMichael Bloomberg<\/span><\/p>\n

American workers are first rate.<\/span>
\nChristopher Dodd<\/span><\/p>\n

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.<\/span>
\nChristopher Dodd<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.<\/span>
\nGlenn Beck<\/span><\/p>\n

I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you’re Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn’t matter. We all know the country’s in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country’s in trouble.<\/span>
\nGlenn Beck<\/span><\/p>\n

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.<\/span>
\nRyszard Kapuscinski<\/span><\/p>\n

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone – who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.<\/span>
\nHubert H. Humphrey<\/span><\/p>\n

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.<\/span>
\nHubert H. Humphrey<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.<\/span>
\nTommy Chong<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don’t understand what an Indigenous American is. We don’t understand what a Latino American is.<\/span>
\nEdward James Olmos<\/span><\/p>\n

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.<\/span>
\nEdward James Olmos<\/span><\/p>\n

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.<\/span>
\nRobert Hughes<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d love to work more with the American Indians, my people.<\/span>
\nLoretta Lynn<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can’t talk to them. It’s Method and the whole thing.<\/span>
\nNorman Jewison<\/span><\/p>\n

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.<\/span>
\nSid Vicious<\/span><\/p>\n

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.<\/span>
\nThomas Babington<\/span><\/p>\n

New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.<\/span>
\nCharlotte Perkins Gilman<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That’s the American way. It’s not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.<\/span>
\nMike Huckabee<\/span><\/p>\n

In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.<\/span>
\nOliver North<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama’s historic achievement to become his party’s nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.<\/span>
\nMike Huckabee<\/span><\/p>\n

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.<\/span>
\nMike Huckabee<\/span><\/p>\n

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn’t matter who was president.<\/span>
\nJames Carville<\/span><\/p>\n

‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don’t get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.<\/span>
\nJames McAvoy<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.<\/span>
\nRobert Morgan<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.<\/span>
\nRobert Morgan<\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality – and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.<\/span>
\nSimon Cowell<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.<\/span>
\nRobert Morgan<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.<\/span>
\nRobert Morgan<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.<\/span>
\nDashiell Hammett<\/span><\/p>\n

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her… I like her.<\/span>
\nSimon Cowell<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.<\/span>
\nKareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn’t put it down – I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.<\/span>
\nJoan Didion<\/span><\/p>\n

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.<\/span>
\nHelmut Jahn<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don’t care about daylight or fresh air.<\/span>
\nHelmut Jahn<\/span><\/p>\n

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.<\/span>
\nSandra Cisneros<\/span><\/p>\n

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.<\/span>
\nBill Bruford<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people… want change. They want big ideas, big reform.<\/span>
\nRahm Emanuel<\/span><\/p>\n

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It’s an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.<\/span>
\nHarvey Pekar<\/span><\/p>\n

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it’s American Squalor.<\/span>
\nHarvey Pekar<\/span><\/p>\n

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.<\/span>
\nMichelle Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.<\/span>
\nDaniel Webster<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.<\/span>
\nHarry Houdini<\/span><\/p>\n

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.<\/span>
\nSpiro T. Agnew<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.<\/span>
\nMorgan Freeman<\/span><\/p>\n

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people – teens or adults – realize.<\/span>
\nJohn Walters<\/span><\/p>\n

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.<\/span>
\nAnn Coulter<\/span><\/p>\n

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.<\/span>
\nTom Brokaw<\/span><\/p>\n

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.<\/span>
\nCarrie Underwood<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.<\/span>
\nCarrie Underwood<\/span><\/p>\n

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.<\/span>
\nCarrie Underwood<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.<\/span>
\nJohn Updike<\/span><\/p>\n

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.<\/span>
\nJerry Garcia<\/span><\/p>\n

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president’s power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.<\/span>
\nJames Bovard<\/span><\/p>\n

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.<\/span>
\nJames Bovard<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.<\/span>
\nSally Ride<\/span><\/p>\n

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.<\/span>
\nMercy Otis Warren<\/span><\/p>\n

By ‘flat’ I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That’s why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.<\/span>
\nThomas Friedman<\/span><\/p>\n

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people’s gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.<\/span>
\nThomas Friedman<\/span><\/p>\n

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.<\/span>
\nSilvio Berlusconi<\/span><\/p>\n

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.<\/span>
\nMoshe Dayan<\/span><\/p>\n

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We’re on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly – by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that’s our – our government’s objective.<\/span>
\nStephen Harper<\/span><\/p>\n

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.<\/span>
\nElizabeth II<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nDick Gregory<\/span><\/p>\n

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.<\/span>
\nGuillermo Cabrera Infante<\/span><\/p>\n

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.<\/span>
\nZiggy Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven’t voted in Jamaica either.<\/span>
\nZiggy Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

When they talk about family values, it’s in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.<\/span>
\nJames Hillman<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.<\/span>
\nJames Hillman<\/span><\/p>\n

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.<\/span>
\nHedy Lamarr<\/span><\/p>\n

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.<\/span>
\nNorman Mailer<\/span><\/p>\n

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn’t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.<\/span>
\nDavid Herbert Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.<\/span>
\nDan Quayle<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.<\/span>
\nBarbara Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.<\/span>
\nGalen Rowell<\/span><\/p>\n

American is the first democratic nation-state.<\/span>
\nStephen Ambrose<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.<\/span>
\nDan Quayle<\/span><\/p>\n

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.<\/span>
\nDan Quayle<\/span><\/p>\n

The average American’s day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles’s dart board.<\/span>
\nDennis Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.<\/span>
\nTony Blair<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I’m telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize – once it’s passed – that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you’re insurance rates aren’t going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren’t going to be running the show like they were before; D, you’re going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you’re going to get a reward for this. They’re going to be rewarded.<\/span>
\nJoe Biden<\/span><\/p>\n

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.<\/span>
\nJoe Biden<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.<\/span>
\nJoe Biden<\/span><\/p>\n

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.<\/span>
\nJoe Biden<\/span><\/p>\n

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I’ve studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.<\/span>
\nStephen Ambrose<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.<\/span>
\nStephen Ambrose<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.<\/span>
\nStephen Ambrose<\/span><\/p>\n

American corporations hate to give away money.<\/span>
\nStephen Ambrose<\/span><\/p>\n

So I’m not really quite sure what Landis’ plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.<\/span>
\nJenny Agutter<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.<\/span>
\nJulie Christie<\/span><\/p>\n

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.<\/span>
\nWilliam Jennings Bryan<\/span><\/p>\n

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.<\/span>
\nW. Somerset Maugham<\/span><\/p>\n

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.<\/span>
\nSarah Palin<\/span><\/p>\n

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.<\/span>
\nSarah Palin<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than be asked to abandon one’s own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.<\/span>
\nRudolf Arnheim<\/span><\/p>\n

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.<\/span>
\nRudolf Arnheim<\/span><\/p>\n

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.<\/span>
\nKid Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.<\/span>
\nAlistair Cooke<\/span><\/p>\n

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.<\/span>
\nBarry Goldwater<\/span><\/p>\n

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.<\/span>
\nBarry Goldwater<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJackie Chan<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I’m hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we’ve done.<\/span>
\nVille Valo<\/span><\/p>\n

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.<\/span>
\nPaul Simon<\/span><\/p>\n

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.<\/span>
\nHideki Tojo<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they’re sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.<\/span>
\nHerman Cain<\/span><\/p>\n

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don’t use African-American, because I’m American, I’m black and I’m conservative. I don’t like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.<\/span>
\nHerman Cain<\/span><\/p>\n

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.<\/span>
\nHideki Tojo<\/span><\/p>\n

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.<\/span>
\nHideki Tojo<\/span><\/p>\n

During this period, Japan’s peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.<\/span>
\nHideki Tojo<\/span><\/p>\n

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.<\/span>
\nBenazir Bhutto<\/span><\/p>\n

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me.<\/span>
\nArt Linkletter<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.<\/span>
\nSpike Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.<\/span>
\nKenneth H. Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.<\/span>
\nJeremy Rifkin<\/span><\/p>\n

People identify with me – everyone does – African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I’m ethnic.<\/span>
\nJanice Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. They’re so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.<\/span>
\nMarlene Dietrich<\/span><\/p>\n

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor’s right to live has been challenged and denied.<\/span>
\nJohn L. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.<\/span>
\nRonald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.<\/span>
\nWarren Buffett<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.<\/span>
\nWarren Buffett<\/span><\/p>\n

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.<\/span>
\nRon Paul<\/span><\/p>\n

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.<\/span>
\nRon Paul<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.<\/span>
\nRon Paul<\/span><\/p>\n

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people abhor a vacuum.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.<\/span>
\nAlexis de Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.<\/span>
\nBarack Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.<\/span>
\nBarack Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.<\/span>
\nBarack Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.<\/span>
\nBarack Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.<\/span>
\nBill Gates<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.<\/span>
\nCarl Sagan<\/span><\/p>\n

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence.<\/span>
\nMalcolm X<\/span><\/p>\n

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.<\/span>
\nCharles Darwin<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.<\/span>
\nMichael Jackson<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no second acts in American lives.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBill Cosby<\/span><\/p>\n

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.<\/span>
\nBill Cosby<\/span><\/p>\n

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you’ll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?<\/span>
\nMilton Friedman<\/span><\/p>\n

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world – it’s the American way of looking at things.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.<\/span>
\nCharlie Sheen<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?<\/span>
\nCharlie Sheen<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohnny Depp<\/span><\/p>\n

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind.<\/span>
\nNewt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.<\/span>
\nNewt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nNewt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.<\/span>
\nNewt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.<\/span>
\nRick Santorum<\/span><\/p>\n

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.<\/span>
\nArnold Schwarzenegger<\/span><\/p>\n

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.<\/span>
\nArnold Schwarzenegger<\/span><\/p>\n

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.<\/span>
\nJackie Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.<\/span>
\nJackie Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.<\/span>
\nColin Powell<\/span><\/p>\n

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.<\/span>
\nAl Capone<\/span><\/p>\n

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.<\/span>
\nWalt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

Alien – an American sovereign in his probationary state.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people I talk to don’t spend every moment thinking, ‘How can I tax my neighbor more than they’re being taxed?’ They say, ‘How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?’<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, ‘It could be worse.’ It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.<\/span>
\nMitt Romney<\/span><\/p>\n

I let the American people down.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.<\/span>
\nWoodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.<\/span>
\nWoodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.<\/span>
\nWoodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

If you really want to help the American theater, don’t be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.<\/span>
\nTallulah Bankhead<\/span><\/p>\n

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.<\/span>
\nCalvin Coolidge<\/span><\/p>\n

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.<\/span>
\nCalvin Coolidge<\/span><\/p>\n

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.<\/span>
\nJames A. Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.<\/span>
\nMarcus Garvey<\/span><\/p>\n

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.<\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.<\/span>
\nKatharine Hepburn<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?<\/span>
\nDouglas MacArthur<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.<\/span>
\nDouglas MacArthur<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBill Maher<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.<\/span>
\nDave Barry<\/span><\/p>\n

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.<\/span>
\nDave Barry<\/span><\/p>\n

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.<\/span>
\nIvan Illich<\/span><\/p>\n

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.<\/span>
\nHerbert Hoover<\/span><\/p>\n

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.<\/span>
\nW. Edwards Deming<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nGilbert K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.<\/span>
\nToni Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.<\/span>
\nToni Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it’s nothing else but color.<\/span>
\nToni Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.<\/span>
\nThomas Sowell<\/span><\/p>\n

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say “Gentlemen” to the person with whom he is conversing.<\/span>
\nAlexis de Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.<\/span>
\nAlexis de Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.<\/span>
\nAlexis de Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.<\/span>
\nJohn Quincy Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Kissinger<\/span><\/p>\n

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.<\/span>
\nHenry A. Kissinger<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.<\/span>
\nSaul Bellow<\/span><\/p>\n

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.<\/span>
\nR. Lee Ermey<\/span><\/p>\n

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don’t need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.<\/span>
\nRush Limbaugh<\/span><\/p>\n

One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.<\/span>
\nW. E. B. Du Bois<\/span><\/p>\n

One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed – different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.<\/span>
\nWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.<\/span>
\nJackie Chan<\/span><\/p>\n

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.<\/span>
\nCarroll Quigley<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.<\/span>
\nSonia Sotomayor<\/span><\/p>\n

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.<\/span>
\nRebecca West<\/span><\/p>\n

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn’t keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a<\/span>
\nlousy music school, because they were taking American music students.<\/span>
\nBurt Bacharach<\/span><\/p>\n

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music<\/span>
\nwas the main thing.<\/span>
\nJohn Deacon<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a very good advertisement for the American school system.<\/span>
\nDavid Brinkley<\/span><\/p>\n

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.<\/span>
\nJames Weldon Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.<\/span>
\nJames Weldon Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.<\/span>
\nMalcolm Muggeridge<\/span><\/p>\n

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn’t have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen<\/span>
\nAmerican embryos.<\/span>
\nPeter Singer<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.<\/span>
\nJoan Crawford<\/span><\/p>\n

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed… I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.<\/span>
\nChristopher Gadsden<\/span><\/p>\n

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays – if we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped<\/span>
\nthe American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.<\/span>
\nAdolf Galland<\/span><\/p>\n

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.<\/span>
\nAdolf Galland<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.<\/span>
\nGary Oldman<\/span><\/p>\n

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one<\/span>
\ndoesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.<\/span>
\nRoger Ebert<\/span><\/p>\n

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that<\/span>
\nRepublican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don’t get it.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, the reality is unemployment today – over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That’s exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this – the American people know we can’t<\/span>
\nborrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

More than anything else, let me be clear – we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That’s what the American people want to<\/span>
\nsee this movement and this party return to.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be<\/span>
\nused for Social Security.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people know what’s necessary to get this economy moving again. It’s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families,<\/span>
\nsmall businesses and family farms.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

All we’re getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the<\/span>
\nAmerican people have had it.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

I never thought I’d live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.<\/span>
\nMike Pence<\/span><\/p>\n

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.<\/span>
\nDesi Arnaz<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.<\/span>
\nChristopher Lasch<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.<\/span>
\nNorman Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they’re very wise at heart.<\/span>
\nNorman Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

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