All Quotes

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
‐‐ David Ignatius

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.
‐‐ Robert Fisk

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
‐‐ Joseph Nye

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
‐‐ Dana Rohrabacher

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
‐‐ Kim Dae Jung

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
‐‐ Elizabeth A. Sherman

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
‐‐ Raymond Loewy

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
‐‐ Gordie Howe

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

American public policy is run on a myth.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.
‐‐ Liane Moriarty

American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
‐‐ Shirley Henderson

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.
‐‐ Paul Guilfoyle

American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained referent to the mental problems many vets live with when they return home from the war.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
‐‐ Tony Judt

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
‐‐ Henry Adams

American society is still puritanical.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
‐‐ Zach Galifianakis

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
‐‐ John Yoo

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
‐‐ Tom Holt

American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You'll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don't see that on British television.
‐‐ David Harewood

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
‐‐ Jason Winston George

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
‐‐ Harold Rosenberg

'American Top 40' allowed me to be current without my having to force change to keep up with things. The new songs kept us up to date, so every show sounded fresh.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
‐‐ John Amery