Quotes About American

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.

Rather than depriving Trump of political victories, Democrats ought to focus on delivering victories for the American people.

We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume that the white people are racists.

As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role.

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

What he liked best about these girls was their accents. After that it was that none of them knew about Scarlet. He didn't have to fight any preconceived ideas people might have about him, other than being American, which he apologized for whenever possible.

in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And it can continue to be rich if we remember that we shouldn't write out of complaint. We should write out of grief, but not grievance. Grief is rich, ecstatic. But grievance is not -- it's a complaint, it's whining.

in Woodhull's home state of Ohio, he came from the American heartland. The electorate had endowed him with an authenticity to which Woodhull could respond. She had paved her way to the White House

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Like cornbread, barbecue is a food that unifies the vast expanse of the American South, an ever larger portion of the American mainstream.