Top 1200 Great American Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.

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.

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

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

The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.

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 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.

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

Racism and bigotry generally are the great driving engines of modern American liberalism. Even a remote hint of racism can trigger a kind of moral entrepreneurism.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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

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.

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

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.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

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.

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

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

American Odyssey' will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It's theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.

In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai restaurant, and it's right next to the 'Great American Hall'. I'm there all the time whenever I'm in town; that's my spot.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

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

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.

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