All Quotes

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

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

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.
‐‐ Mohammed Aldouri

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
‐‐ Leslie Caron

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.
‐‐ Michael Oren

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
‐‐ Edith Wharton

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.
‐‐ Conrad Black

The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
‐‐ Michael Moore

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
‐‐ Sloan Wilson

The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
‐‐ Nelson Algren

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
‐‐ Van Wyck Brooks

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
‐‐ Howard Stringer

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
‐‐ Mark Teixeira

The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
‐‐ Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
‐‐ Malcolm X

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.
‐‐ Michael Hirst

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
‐‐ John Linder

The American people abhor a vacuum.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.
‐‐ Joseph Crowley

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
‐‐ Gordon Smith

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.
‐‐ John Yarmuth

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

The American people are frustrated.
‐‐ Pam Bondi

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.
‐‐ Norm Dicks

The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

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

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
‐‐ J. D. Hayworth

The American people are opposed to ObamaCare. They were when the law passed; they're still opposed to it. But the fact of the matter is it's got to be implemented. We're trying to do our part even here in Nebraska. It's very, very difficult.
‐‐ Dave Heineman

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.
‐‐ John Boehner

The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.
‐‐ David Plouffe

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
‐‐ John Avlon

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
‐‐ Jim Jordan

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.
‐‐ Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
‐‐ Eric Holder

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
‐‐ J. D. Hayworth

The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.
‐‐ Joe Baca