American Quotes - page 23

I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine.... (Mitt Romney)
I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. View quote
Mitt Romney
These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King. View quote
Mitt Romney
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. View quote
Mitt Romney
An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. View quote
Edward Bellamy
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. View quote
Will Rogers
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive. View quote
Virginia Foxx
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. View quote
Virginia Foxx
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters. View quote
Man Ray
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people. View quote
James Jones
Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's. (Laraine Day)
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth. View quote
John Pilger
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism. View quote
Warren Buffett
We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? View quote
Milton Friedman
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. View quote
Isadora Duncan
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare. (Ethan Hawke)
I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. View quote
Bill Maher
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut