All Quotes

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders.
‐‐ Jay Parini

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.
‐‐ Joe Baca

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
‐‐ Jim Ramstad

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.
‐‐ Jerry Moran

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
‐‐ James Woolsey

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
‐‐ Gary Shteyngart

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
‐‐ Vincente Minnelli

American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

American food is not what I'm used to - everything is like three portions.
‐‐ Estelle

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
‐‐ David Mamet

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

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.
‐‐ Russell Baker

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
‐‐ Howard Berman

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
‐‐ Jay Parini

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
‐‐ Donald Freed

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
‐‐ Hanoi Hannah

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
‐‐ Jean Reno

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
‐‐ George Lucas

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.
‐‐ Evan Peters

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
‐‐ Taissa Farmiga

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
‐‐ Elinor Glyn

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe

'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
‐‐ Corey Clark

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.
‐‐ Paula Abdul

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
‐‐ Diane Sawyer

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.
‐‐ Corey Clark