Quotes About American

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland - a country in which I have worked a little, and which I see as a pure blue and green place of unpolluted lakes, peaceful forests, and pristine social-democratic values.

I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.