Quotes About American

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.

I think the American people should be able to vote by mail.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.

I purposely got involved in the American market, as I'm really interested in it. I find the way they do marketing there really cool.

American socialists have introduced a unique element—identity politics—that Marx would have repudiated and other socialists assiduously avoided. Consequently, American socialism deserves its own name, and the name I propose is "identity socialism.

What the socialist class is good at, however, is creating envy and entitlement. This is their peculiar talent. And even though they won't admit it, they are engaged in a desperate battle for social control. What they seek is a displacement of power in society in which they, not entrepreneurs, direct the great apparatus of American industry, indeed direct the lives of the people themselves. They cannot, of course, admit this publicly, or even to themselves.

No Scandinavian has ever identified American socialism as resembling Scandinavian socialism, even in embryo. The defining features of American socialism and the American Left (identity politics, class and ethnic division, and social intimidation to enforce these categories) are simply absent in the Nordic countries. -chapter 4

Although today's American Left dares not invoke Mussolini's name, the honest among them will have to admit that it was he and his fellow fascists who were their pioneers and paved their way.

In this bogus narrative, Republicans are the bad guys because Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. For progressive Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement is the canonical event of American history. It is even more important than the American Revolution. Progressive reasoning is: We did this, so it must be the greatest thing that was ever done in America. Republicans opposed it, which makes them the bad guys.

Jonah Goldberg received pretty much the same treatment for his important book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg argues, "What we call liberalism—the refurnished edifice of American progressivism—is in fact a descendant of and manifestation of fascism.

To understand Hillary, we must solve the Hillary enigma. The Hillary enigma is why anyone—any American, any Democrat, even Bill—would consider voting for her. Yes, I know she wants to be the first woman president. But women across the country, in high positions and in low, are doing things, accomplishing things. This woman has been in public life for decades, and yet she has accomplished nothing.

The Trail of Tears has gone down in American history as cruel and infamous. It certainly was, although its actual perpetrator was not "America" but rather the Jackson Democrats.

The point is that the American model has proven far more hospitable to nonwhite immigrants than the Nordic model, and leftists in this country realize that.

All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery—Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy—were Democrats.

My God - it's a green child! said the American. What is this place - the House of Usher?

Neil is wearing a coat such as I never saw in my life before: checked back and front, but plain sleeves. Perhaps it was made out of two old coats – though I hope not, as that would show him to be poor and his brother mean. And it looked rather a noisily new coat. I expect it's just American.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

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

He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. It's like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious. Why does this make you proud to be an American? The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.