Top 1200 Every American Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

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

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

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

Colin Powell devoted himself to the betterment of this country and of every American in all that he did. His legacy and character is one we must remember, and one that we should each seek to emulate in all that we do.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

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

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

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

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

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

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

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

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

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

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

In 2008, I was a full-time volunteer for Barack Obama's first election. I'd take a carload of people and we'd go and canvass in a Native American community every evening.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

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

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

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

We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

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

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'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.

My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

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

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

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

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.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

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 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.