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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
— Frederick Douglass
I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.
— Amy Tan
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
— Herbert Hoover
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
— John Knowles
What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?
— William Clay Ford Jr.
That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works
— Barack Obama
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
— Mary Harris Jones
What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.
— Gish Jen
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
— David Cronenberg
Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.
— Nathan Hale
In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
What a privilege it is to be an American!
— Thomas Starr King
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
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
— Zoe Lofgren
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
— Toni Morrison
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
— Charles Duke
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
— Neil Gaiman
American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.
— Valerie Jarrett
I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.
— Chris Christie
What is the old American saying? Pretend it is chicken?
— James L. Cambias
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
— Condoleezza Rice
I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!
— Emma Watson
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
— Ronald D. Moore
What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
— Steven Chu
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
— George Bernard Shaw
People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.
— David Chang
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely ... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
— John F. Kennedy
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.
— Art Buchwald
What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
— Tracey Ullman
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
— Benjamin Todd Jealous
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
— John Stossel
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
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
— Queen Elizabeth II
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
— J. William Fulbright
Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.
— Adam Cooper
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs
What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it?
— Deyth Banger
What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?
— Colin Mochrie
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
You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.
— L. William Seidman
I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state.
— Joe Wurzelbacher
What fools American can be for England
— Charles Finch
I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.
— Marco Rubio
You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.
— George Carlin
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
— Karl Rove
I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.
— Seymour Hersh
To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
— Isaac Asimov
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
— Gwendolyn Brooks
American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
— Fran Lebowitz
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
— Grover Cleveland
How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen?
— Zia Haider Rahman
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
— L. Neil Smith
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.
— Iris Dement
The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.
— Ron Ziegler
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
— William J. Clinton
I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.
— Rudy Giuliani