All Quotes

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
‐‐ Michael Enzi

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
‐‐ Tom Price

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
‐‐ Barbara Boxer

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
‐‐ Oliver North

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.
‐‐ Herman Cain

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
‐‐ Al Smith

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
‐‐ Martha Roby

The American people's vote can't be bought.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.
‐‐ Kent Conrad

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
‐‐ Bob Graham

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

The American people should not wonder where their military leaders draw the line between military advice and political preference. And our nation's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines should not wonder about the political leanings and motivations of their leaders.
‐‐ Martin Dempsey

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
‐‐ John Boehner

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
‐‐ Mike Lee

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.
‐‐ John Linder

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
‐‐ Martha Roby

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.
‐‐ David Plouffe

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
‐‐ Dave Brat

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
‐‐ John McCain

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.
‐‐ Bill Johnson

The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.
‐‐ Donald Trump

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.
‐‐ Scott Turow

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
‐‐ Henry Adams

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

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
‐‐ Michael Moore

The American public does not know poets exist.
‐‐ James Broughton

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
‐‐ Lance Ito

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

The American public is rightfully asking, 'Hey, all those funds are coming out of my pocket, so I want to know where they're going.'
‐‐ Scott Garrett

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
‐‐ Patrick Leahy

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
‐‐ Samuel George Morton