Quotes About American

I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.