Top 1200 American Media Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

The media is such a huge piece of how we understand feminism, particularly celebrity feminism, and I really do think that so much of how that stuff gets filtered through can be either finessed or really stymied by how media talks about it.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Trump base is solid, and there's nothing the media can do to break it. There's not a single thing they can do. They are never gonna give that up, either. They are doing everything they can to split up Trump supporters from Trump. Only Trump can do that. The media didn't make Trump and, as I repeatedly say, they can't bust him.

You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Campaigns and elections are not a game. They're not a game. They're about trying to change America. We're the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not be having Flint, Michigan, or African-American communities all over this country where schools are failing. Those are the issue we got to pay attention to and not at this as come kind of silly game. And that is the critique that bothers me. That's what bothers me about media coverage.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

Deregulation is a popular term that's used across the political spectrum. And it's one of these terms like "choice," that corporate interests have used because they know their focus-group buzzword testing makes it sound like a popular word. Because, who can be against deregulation? Being free, having liberty, not having someone tell you what to do, being deregulated, hey, that sounds great. But deregulation is a non sequitur in the realm of media policy or media regulation. The issue is never regulation versus deregulation; our entire system is built on media policies and subsidies.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

I'm getting a little fed up with some of the pessimism that I'm hearing. I know some people who will not be convinced we've really won anything until the media changes. And that isn't gonna happen. They look at the media not liking Trump and they think it's failure. They look at the media ripping Trump and destroying him and they think it's gonna work and it means failure. And I get so fed up. I said, "Do you people not understand we're on the cusp here of one of the most exciting next four years?" The growth potential, the potential of putting America back together.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.

I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.