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It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights
even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down. — John F. Kennedy

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 way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. — Virgil Thomson

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

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did. — Richard Dreyfuss

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different. — Crystal Bowersox

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. — Prescott Bush

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. — Julia Jones

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz. — Hillary Clinton

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA. — Phil Ochs

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now. — Mira Nair

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy — Jack Canfield

American writers were still content to describe an ironic culture when they should be showing the way out. — D.T. Max

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to. — American McGee

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better. — Macklemore

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way. — Donald L. Carcieri

It is the American way to reward ability. — Judd Gregg

I discovered right away at the airport that Italian men were way too attentive. — Glenda Helms

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. — Homer

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. — Elliott Abrams

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. — Henry A. Wallace

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way. — Cynthia Carroll

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country? — Lee Iacocca

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up. — Sara Paretsky

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work. — Adam C. Engst

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose

Convenience is the American way. — Cheech Marin

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way. — Eugene H. Peterson

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone. — Rich Lowry

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life. — Robert Bork

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life. — Helen Caldicott

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one. — Rachel Bilson

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

The American way of life is not negotiable. — George H. W. Bush

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob — H.L. Mencken

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day. — Will Durst

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President. — Jeremy Clarkson

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. — Monica Bellucci

No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you. — Richard K. Morgan

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way. — Tony La Russa

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. — Timothy Noah

I love the American way of life. — Juan Pablo Montoya

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other. — Henry Bonilla

Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue. — Orson Scott Card

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. — Benjamin Carson

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without. — Ludwig Von Mises

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way. — Edward Kennedy

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing. — Rachel Weisz

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude. — David Halberstam

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways. — Bryce Dessner

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. — Bill Murray

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way. — Craig Ferguson

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. — Martha Plimpton

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. — Christiane Amanpour

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way. — Omar N. Bradley

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan. — Kelly Miller

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans ... — William J. Clinton

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. — Jerry Pournelle

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

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. — Paullina Simons

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale. — Argus Hamilton

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. — Taylor Hackford

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? — Cullen Hightower

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. — Adam Davidson

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians
are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides — James Quinn

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. — Jarod Kintz

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit. — George W. Bush

Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation. — Nydia Velazquez

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for — David Foster Wallace

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly. — Teju Cole

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. — Hanya Yanagihara

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. — Jennifer Lopez

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. — Luis Fortuno

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

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. — James Q. Wilson

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way. — Janeane Garofalo

Only where there is life can there be home. — Joyce Carol Oates

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. — Lewis H. Lapham

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it. — Carl Olson

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity. — Geoff Davis

We don't start a job that we can't finish ... that's the American way. — Paul Wolfowitz

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way. — Barry Ritholtz

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic. — James Surowiecki

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. — William Gibson

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. — Dorothy Day

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way. — Dorothy W. Cosey

We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people. — Chris Christie

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. — Arundhati Roy

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American. — Gabriel Iglesias

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story. — Rachel Bloom