Quotes About American

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,' and his parents are so kind, and they're not brash people; they're very soft spoken, salt of the earth.

I'm well spoken, I'm pretty, I eat well. I'm a great father and a great citizen. I'm an awesome American.

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.