American Quotes - page 20

Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God. (Jerry Falwell)
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide? View quote
Rush Limbaugh
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. View quote
Barry Goldwater
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. View quote
Henry Clay
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. View quote
Indro Montanelli
The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretense of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. (Oswald Mosley)
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces. View quote
George Galloway
Yet we slink about like whipped curs ... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States ... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States. View quote
Enoch Powell
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. View quote
Lin Yutang
And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors. View quote
Ted Nugent
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere. View quote
David Byrne
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs. View quote
Rex Stout
A typical vice of American politics - the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. (Marlon Brando)
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. View quote
William McKinley