American Quotes

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

~ Bernie Sanders

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

~ Carroll Shelby

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

~ Michael Moore

Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

~ Mitt Romney

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

~ Douglas Coupland

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

~ Rand Paul

For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

~ Alex Berenson

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.

~ Sebastian Thrun

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.

~ Jackie Chan

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

~ Jim Demint

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

~ Brian Chesky

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

~ Paul Robeson

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

~ Dennis Prager

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

~ Bruce Springsteen

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

~ Maya Angelou

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

~ Sherman Alexie

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

~ Leslie Caron

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

~ Tom Hooper

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

~ Eddie Izzard

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

~ Susana Martinez

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

~ Robert Pinsky

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

~ Joseph Brodsky

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

~ Joseph Brodsky

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

~ Jay Parini

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

~ W. H. Auden

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

~ Billy Collins

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

~ Douglas Brinkley

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.

~ Robert Morgan

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

~ Robert Morgan

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

~ Robert Morgan

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

~ Charles Darwin

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.

~ Harry S Truman

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

~ Gordon Sinclair

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

~ Ben Shapiro

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

~ Noam Chomsky

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

~ Pete Hamill