Quotes About American

Yet the failure to solve the riddle of I.S.I. and to stop its covert interference in Afghanistan became, ultimately, the greatest strategic failure of the American war. —

On May 12, 2011, Bordin published a seventy-page paper titled "A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility." It provided a raw, highly detailed account of estrangement between American and Afghan allies.

Karzai believed that Pakistan should be the main effort of the American war. As Eikenberry once put it to him, "If you had a choice about where to deploy thirty thousand new American troops, you would put five thousand into training Afghan forces, five thousand along the border with Pakistan, and twenty thousand in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas," inside Pakistan.

you can't shoot down an American helicopter with an American plane." He meant that the Pentagon would know how to interfere with the F-16's systems to prevent it from successfully operating air-to-air missiles.

American tolerance of the Taliban was publicly and inextricably linked to the financial goals of an oil corporation.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

And as long as I'm being brutally candid, I only wound up teaching American History because I followed a cute ass into the country-and-western section at Barnes & Noble

Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.

If the truth be known, they would realize that Cheng's network was far more pervasive, so much so that it had drilled into the very core of the American government in Washington.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

The only two groups left who tell stories chronologically—at least in American culture—are lawyers and six-year-olds.

Being on 'American Idol,' the blessings of glasses have rained from the sky. I really would like to start a Danny line or a Gokey line of eyeglasses.

The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

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

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

The Death Tax destroys American jobs and cripples small businesses and family farms.