American Quotes

My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

~ Joss Whedon

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

~ Meghan Markle

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

~ George Takei

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

~ Mike Pence

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

~ Edmund Morgan

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.

~ Isaac Asimov

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

~ Charles B. Rangel

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.

~ John Quincy Adams

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

~ Kim Jong Il

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

~ Cindy Sheehan

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

~ Jimmy Carter

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

~ Rob Portman

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.

~ Bob Barr

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

~ William E. Simon

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.

~ Bill O'reilly

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

~ Vito Fossella

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

~ Luis Fortuno

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

~ Annalynne Mccord

I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.

~ Serinda Swan

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

~ Dr. Dre

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

~ David Plouffe

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

~ Moshe Dayan

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

~ John Shadegg

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

~ Snoop Dogg

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

~ Hedy Lamarr

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

~ Darrell Issa

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.

~ Marya Mannes

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

~ David Wain

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

~ Thad Cochran

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

~ Patricia Schroeder

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

~ Nicholas Kristof

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

~ Eva Longoria

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

~ Gordon Gee

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

~ Gordon Gee

Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

~ Bob Barr

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

~ Janet Napolitano

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

~ James Heckman

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

~ Paul Erdos