Quotes About American

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.