Top 1200 American Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.

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

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

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

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.

There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving price stability.

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

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

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

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

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

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

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

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

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

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

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

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.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

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

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

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

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.

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.

But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an Almighty and if you choose not to. If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America is the right to worship the way you see fit. Prayer and religion sustain me. I receive calmness in the storms of the presidency. I love the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. Somebody asked me one time, how do you know? I said I just feel it.

American universities are so expensive. My family couldn't afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay my own way.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

If I have a name out there from this thing called 'American Idol,' I don't understand why anyone wouldn't use it for good. That's the way the world should work.

It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems - at least at the state level - electing an African-American.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

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.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

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

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.

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

One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you're part of the Assad show.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

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

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

John F. Kennedy loved America. He was proud to be an American. And you'd call that politician JFK. That's who he was. He was not in any way a liberal as you know liberals today.

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

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.

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

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

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

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.