All Quotes

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
‐‐ Robert Trout

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
‐‐ Robert Darnton

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
‐‐ Phil Gramm

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
‐‐ Rebecca West

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.
‐‐ Dexter Filkins

The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
‐‐ Barbara Mikulski

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.
‐‐ John Conyers

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
‐‐ Os Guinness

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
‐‐ Matt Gallagher

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

The American way is to not need help, but to help.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
‐‐ Harry Browne

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
‐‐ Jean Patou

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
‐‐ Max Azria

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
‐‐ Leonard Boswell

The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
‐‐ John Cleese

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
‐‐ Malcolm Wilson

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
‐‐ Chaka Fattah

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very effective and action-driven.
‐‐ Delphine Arnault

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
‐‐ David Bowie

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That's why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, 'Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick - but hang on, we are too.'
‐‐ Stormzy

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
‐‐ Anthony Shadid

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.
‐‐ Russell Crowe