American Quotes

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

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.

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I'm not maximized yet.

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.