Quotes About American

American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted under a kind of upside-down Russian veto: no man could be elected to public office unless he was on record as detesting the Russians, and no proposal could be enacted, from a peace plan at one end to a military budget at the other, unless it could be demonstrated that the Russians wouldn't like it.

There are no lobbyists for the American Dream.

Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

learning to think, read, and write like an American. I didn't want to just wait till I picked it up. One weekend a couple

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

If Disney was a mouthpiece for an American way of life, the force of his voice depended on a curious obsession with death."[6] Virtually every one of his most famous films focused on the subject, from Snow White to Pinocchio.

I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.

All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.

I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'

I think the American people have a lot of questions about the governance of this country.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

It's time for Washington to get out of the way and quit killing American jobs.

Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.

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