American Quotes

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

~ Marco Rubio

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

~ Frank Waters

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

~ Kathryn Lasky

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

~ Tom Price

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

~ Atul Gawande

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

~ Grover Cleveland

I let the American people down.

~ Richard M. Nixon

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

~ Rodney King

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

~ Hari Kunzru

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

~ Lance Morrow

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

~ Ken Calvert

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

~ James M. Buchanan

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

~ Graham Nash

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

~ Rosa Delauro

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

~ Adam Mckay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

~ Michael Bay

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

~ Hugh Hefner

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

~ Glenn Greenwald

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.

~ Per Petterson

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

~ Narciso Rodriguez

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

~ Pete Stark

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

~ Condoleezza Rice

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

~ Fredric Jameson

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.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

~ James Stockdale

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

~ Chris Bell

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter that's it. It's a task I love.

~ Olivia De Havilland

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

~ Ed Markey

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

~ J. C. Watts

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.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

~ Paul Ryan

With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

~ Nancy Pelosi

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

~ Mitt Romney

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.

~ Bill Cosby

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

~ Marsha Blackburn

We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

~ Tammy Duckworth

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

~ James Sinegal

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

~ George Steinbrenner