American Quotes - page 5

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. (Martin Feldstein)
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. View quote
George W. Bush
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. View quote
George W. Bush
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. View quote
Arundhati Roy
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. View quote
Edward Albee
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... View quote
Poul Anderson
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. View quote
Gloria Steinem
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. (Betty Friedan)
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. View quote
Betty Friedan
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. View quote
Djuna Barnes
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability. View quote
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. View quote
Rebecca West
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. View quote
Alan K. Simpson
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. View quote
Ben Hecht
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people. View quote
Ben Hecht
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. (Marcus Garvey)
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. View quote
James Baldwin
Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far. View quote
Sacha Baron Cohen
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. View quote
Bud Selig
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. View quote
Don DeLillo