Top 1200 American People Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

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

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

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

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

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

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

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

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.

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

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.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

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

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

It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

You are an American, so you're hurt that other American citizens have been hurt, but you end up having to shoulder the shame for something that you don't even believe. There's a lot of years where Muslims have dealt with having to make themselves very small and not disrupt the flow and not - make sure that you're not noticed because, you know, deep down inside people are not really excited that you're around .

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

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

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

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

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

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

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

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.

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.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

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

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

That's what's going to matter at the end of the day. Did we improve people's lives? Did we solve the problems that the American people need solved? Are we addressing the concerns of people who are tired of being tired?

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

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

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

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

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

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

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

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

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

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

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

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

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

I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

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

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.

We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

I learned that the American people are pretty great people. And they are just poorly served by their leadership, and Washington's very much out of touch with the struggles of ordinary Americans. My hope is that we'll have a Democratic Administration, and then we'll hold their feet to the fire so they start performing for people who put them there.

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

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.