Quotes on American

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Author: Jack Abbott

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Author: Spencer Abraham

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.

Author: Henry Adams

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

Author: Jack Adams

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

Author: Jenny Agutter

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Author: Clay Aiken

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Author: Daniel Akaka

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

Author: Malin Akerman

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

Author: Edward Albee

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Author: Madeleine Albright

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

Author: Mohammed Aldouri

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

American is the first democratic nation-state.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

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

Author: John Amery

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Author: Aldrich Ames

I'm an American before any party preference.

Author: Lynn Anderson

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Author: Margaret Anderson

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

Author: Michael Andretti

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

Author: Alexis Arguello

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Author: Leon Askin

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

Author: Spencer Bachus

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Author: Robert Bakker

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Author: Iain Banks

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Author: Djuna Barnes

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Author: Dave Barry

I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

Author: Charles Bass

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Author: Gary Bauer

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Author: Michael Bay

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Author: Melissa Bean

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

Author: Cecil Beaton

I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.

Author: Glenn Beck

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Author: Glenn Beck

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Author: Monica Bellucci

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Author: Tony Bennett

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Author: Jeff Bingaman

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

Author: Bill Bixby

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Author: Tony Blair

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

Author: John Boehner

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

Author: Edward Bok

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

Author: Julian Bond

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.

Author: Jo Bonner

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Author: Robert Bork

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Author: Anthony Bourdain

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

Author: Bill Bradley

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Author: Stan Brakhage

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

Author: Stewart Brand

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

Author: Jeremy Brett

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Author: Stephen Breyer

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Author: David Brinkley

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Author: Tom Brokaw

The American public does not know poets exist.

Author: James Broughton

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Author: Earl Browder

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

Author: Corrine Brown

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

Author: Bill Bruford

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

Author: John Bruton

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Author: Art Buchwald

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Author: Warren Buffett

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

Author: Francine Busby

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Author: Laura Bush

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Author: George Byron

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Author: Lord Byron

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Author: Michael Caine

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Author: Alex Campbell

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

Author: Nick Cannon

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Author: Al Capone

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Author: Donald Carcieri

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

Author: Keith Carradine

Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code.

Author: Maurice Carroll

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

Author: Bruce Catton

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

Author: Paul Cellucci

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Author: Tom Chapin

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Author: Hugo Chavez

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

Author: Linda Chavez

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

Author: Linda Chavez

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

Author: Ron Chernow

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Author: Tommy Chong

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Author: Frank Church

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Author: John Ciardi

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Author: Grover Cleveland

It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.

Author: Howard Coble

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Author: Juan Cole

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

Author: Nat Cole

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

Author: John Coleman

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Author: Jackie Collins

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

Author: Jackie Collins

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Author: Charles Colton

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

Author: John Conyers

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Author: Kenneth Cooper

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

Author: Francis Coppola

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

Author: John Corigliano

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Author: Eric Cornell

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

Author: John Corry

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Author: Bill Cosby

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

Author: Jim Costa

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.

Author: Simon Cowell

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Author: Graham Coxon

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

Author: Graham Coxon

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

Author: Joan Crawford

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

Author: Herbert Croly

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Author: Herbert Croly

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

Author: Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Author: Herbert Croly

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

Author: Cameron Crowe

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Author: John Cusack

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Author: Josephus Daniels

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Author: Arthur Danto

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Author: Alexander Davis

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Author: Rebecca Davis

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Author: Christopher Dawson

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

Author: John Dawson

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Author: Don DeLillo

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Author: Iris Dement

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

Author: Rocco DiSpirito

American workers are first rate.

Author: Christopher Dodd

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

Author: Sam Donaldson

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

Author: Byron Dorgan

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Author: Mary Douglas

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Author: Alan Dundes

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Author: Katherine Dunn

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

Author: Charles Eastman

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

Author: John Eaton

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Author: Irwin Edman

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

Author: Hector Elizondo

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

Author: James Ellroy

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

Author: Robert Englund

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

Author: John Ensign

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

Author: John Entwistle

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

Author: R. Ermey

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

Author: Sam Ervin

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

Author: Jim Evans

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Author: Dennis Farina