Top 1200 Every American Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.

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

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

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

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

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.

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

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

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

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

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.

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

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

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

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

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

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

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

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

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

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.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

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

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

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

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

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

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

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

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