Top 1200 Best American Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.

I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people - I had to make it work in other ways.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.

My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just started naturally imitating whoever I was talking to. I didn't want to be a phony, but I felt very authentic in the moment.

You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

Are you truly doing what's best for the nation, what's best for the Army, what's best for your unit, and what's best for your soldiers and their families? Are you taking all of that into consideration, or are you looking at what makes you as an individual look the best?

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. Well work for it, sisters and brothers. Well stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name, but on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.

Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

It will be hard to become the best South American striker because, from Argentina, there are lots of outstanding players.

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American.

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'

To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.

The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.