Top 1200 American Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

My administration will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American.

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

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.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

The American Nazi party and the KKK don't really exist in a meaningful way. They may have an office or website. But they are not tens of thousands of members.

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

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

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

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

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

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

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

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

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 tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

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

I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.

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.

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

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

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

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

There is a clear and strong link between the economy's present woes and the Iraq war. The war was at least one of the factors contributing to rising oil prices - which meant Americans were spending money on imported oil, rather than on things that would stimulate the american economy. Hiring Nepalese contractors in Iraq, moreover, doesn't stimulate the American economy in the way that building a school in America would do - and obviously doesn't have the long term benefits.

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

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

There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has identified as undermining the American way of life.

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

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

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

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