Top 1200 American Scholar Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.

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

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

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

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

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

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

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

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

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

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

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

Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote on the basis of race.

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

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

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

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.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

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

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.

Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.

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

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

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

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

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

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

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.

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

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

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

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

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

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

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

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

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

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

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

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight - by Congress, for example - by 'pre-clearing' the president in advance.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

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

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

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

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

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

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.