American Quotes - page 3

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries. (Edith Wharton)
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
William Howard Taft
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country.
Bobby Fischer
The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
Will Rogers
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.
Wentworth Miller
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Studs Terkel
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. (Jean-Luc Godard)
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker
[Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
Ariel Sharon
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
Sergei Eisenstein
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chávez
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. (Laurence J. Peter)
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Frank Luntz
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Desi Arnaz
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
John Coleman