Top 1200 Great American Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But the people of Hawaii are strong and we will persevere.

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

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.

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

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

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

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

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

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 American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

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

I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

The American people understand that what makes the nation great is not people's bloodlines or how long ago their ancestors arrived here, but their character and belief in the Constitution.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

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

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

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

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

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

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

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

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

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

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

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

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

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

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

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

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

The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

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

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

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

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

Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.

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.