Top 1200 American People Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But 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.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

I want to raise awareness about evils perpetuated on American citizens by other American citizens.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'

I want to be that President who serves the American people the way they deserve to be served.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

I think the American people have a lot of questions about the governance of this country.

I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

The American people have been kicked in the teeth by unfair trade for decades.

People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values.

Every American, and every corporation, should pay their fair share to build the American dream.

Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.