American Quotes

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

~ Fredric Jameson

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

~ Paul Robeson

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.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

~ Richard Reeves

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

~ Dana Rohrabacher

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

~ Paul Robeson

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

~ Cindy Sheehan

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

~ Norman Finkelstein

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.

~ Ron Paul

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

~ Lee H. Hamilton

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

~ Jerry Brown

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.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.

~ Mitt Romney

In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.

~ Elliott Abrams

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

~ Paul Craig Roberts

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

~ Juan Williams

When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.

~ Niecy Nash

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

~ Mitch Daniels

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

~ Michael Caine

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

~ Walt Mossberg

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

~ Hannah Simone

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

~ Kaya Scodelario

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

~ Frank Luntz

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

~ Kelly Miller

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

~ Walt Whitman

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

~ Jack Kevorkian

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

~ David Shields

What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.

~ Steve Blank

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.

~ Johnny Weir

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

~ Jim Bishop

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

~ Elon Musk

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

~ Joel Kinnaman

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

~ Ang Lee

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

~ Nathaniel Philbrick

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

~ Buzz Aldrin

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

~ Paul Davies