Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
~ Gabrielle Union
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~ H. L. Mencken
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
~ Ruby Wax
It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.
~ Yul Vazquez
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
~ Pete Hamill
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.
~ Henry James
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
~ Al Gore
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
~ Terry Eagleton
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
~ Claudia Rankine
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
~ Art Blakey
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
~ Peter Singer
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
~ Trevor Noah
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
~ Edward Brooke
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
~ Neal Barnard
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
~ Theodore White
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
~ Zell Miller
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
~ John Gunther
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
~ Marco Rubio
American politics is always an open competition.
~ Hillary Clinton
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
~ John Sayles
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
~ George J. Mitchell
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
~ Tammy Bruce
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
~ Robert Byrd
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
~ Edna Ferber
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
~ Lysander Spooner
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
~ Eamon De Valera
Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
~ Shimon Peres
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~ Emma Goldman
I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.
~ Sharon Stone
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.
~ James Gray
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
~ Zoe Saldana
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
~ Alexandra Fuller
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.
~ Carl Sagan
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
~ Louise Mensch
