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Quotes About American

The family is the American fascism.
~ Paul Goodman
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
~ Christopher Bond
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
~ Ulysses S. Grant
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.
~ Robert Heilbroner
That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.
~ Wendell Pierce
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
~ John Boehner
We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
~ Dick Armey
I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.
~ Louise Bourgeois
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
~ Bill Drayton
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
~ Jackie Chan
The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.
~ John F. Kerry
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
~ Kim Harrison
Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
~ Joy Browne
Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.
~ Eden Robinson
I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.
~ Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.
~ Unknown
Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.
~ Donald Hall
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
~ Constance Baker Motley
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
~ Dominic Chianese
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.
~ Paul Begala
My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.
~ Jorge M. Perez
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
~ Joe Bageant