Top 1200 American Greatness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump's absurd claim that they're 'un-American' and instead understand that it's very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.