Quotes About American

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Anything that happens in America culturally resonates throughout the world because the American culture is exported universally.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.