Quotes About American

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

One reason (though not the main one) is that American health care "providers"—doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies—make more money for what they do than their counterparts overseas do.

In the twentieth century, Kansas City produced two uniquely American geniuses who would both forever alter the physical and cultural landscape of the country. One of these men built a magic kingdom, a fantasy world that offered nonstop, wholesome family fun and a complete escape from reality. The other one moved to Hollywood and opened a theme park.

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

Poverty is not the stepchild of the Great Recession; poverty has always been a part of American life.

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.

trusty old American .45—five cartridges in and the hammer down on the empty. The bulky blue steel revolver felt heavy and cold in his hand as he quickly snapped out the cylinder and checked the load. The slugs were scooped out and a deep cross had been cut into the head of each.

He had a hint of a British accent; either he was American and had been educated in England or was English and had been living in America too long. (Or he just could have been an asshole.)

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.