Top 1200 American Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

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.

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

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

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.

'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.

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.

Our primary threat today is ISIS. And because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed some American combat troops to remain in Iraq and secure the hard fought gains the American soldier had won by 2009, ISIS was able to be literally conjured up out of the desert, and it's overrun vast areas that the American soldier had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

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.

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.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

The American people, when had the chance, three times now have said "no" to Hillary Clinton. The Democrats did it in 2008. The Jill Stein recount this year and the American people in 2016. Three times in eight years the American people have looked at Hillary Clinton and said "no."

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.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

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

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

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

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

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

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

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.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

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.

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.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

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

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

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.

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.

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.

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

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

Of course, it's an honor to be speaking on behalf of the U.S. government, but my boss is really the American people and there are different entities who are kind of serving the American people.

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.

And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

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.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

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.

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!'

We should be bolstering American energy independence and American jobs - not making ourselves vulnerable by lining the pockets of foreign energy suppliers.

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

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.