Quotes About American

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

The American Dream is ownership a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

The American people aren't focused on the debates of the past. They're focused on their future. They're focused on the challenges that we're facing at home and abroad.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.