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American Quotes

They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But no, the American people are strong and proud, and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history and culture to be taken from them.

– Donald Trump

At Mount Rushmore July 3, pre-July 4 holiday event holiday.

In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.

– Drew Brees

Apologizing for statement that NFL players who knelt to protest racism and police brutality were “disrespecting” the flag.

This could be the beginning of the change of American democracy not to illiberalism, but to enlightenment. But it will have to come from the bottom up. For at the White House, there is no one home.

– General John Allen

On Donald Trump’s response to people’s protests on racism.

Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.

– Sacha Baron Cohen

At the Golden Globe awards, after receiving the best actor award for comedy for his performance in Borat.

This is an incredible nation. The American people are generous, decent, good, fair, bright, and it makes you so proud to be an American.

– Joe Biden

On America and coronavirus pandemic.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, Chapter 5. Nick Carraway’s comment that Americans may be willing to work for slave wages but they despise being seen as part of a social underclass.

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them… unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

– Gordon Sinclair

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

– Hank Johnson

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

– Helen Thomas

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that’s what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

– Helen Thomas

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations – not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

– Hanna Rosin

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

– Gerhard Schroder

It’s just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He’s the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called ‘chads,’ a notion we’ve never entirely grasped.

– Graham Joyce

American GIs don’t fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson’s.

– Hanoi Hannah

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

– Henry Adams

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

– Hillary Clinton

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

– Gordon Sinclair

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

– Gunter Grass

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

– Hayley Atwell

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that’s fine, but we don’t need to see you do a ‘Schindler’s List,’ where there’s no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

– Hill Harper

I rebel at the notion that I can’t be part of other groups, that I can’t construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

– Henry Louis Gates

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone – it will be Ericsson on the inside.

– Hans Vestberg

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

– Gallagher

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

– Gerald Vizenor

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

– Harry S Truman

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

– Hillary Clinton

I think English punk died in ’79 or ’80. Maybe ’82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn’t the same as English punk. It wasn’t a working-class movement that was protesting the conditions under which this class had to work. I don’t think American punk ever died.

– Greg Graffin

Guns are part of the American identity.

– Henry Rollins

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage – that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.

– Hattie Carnegie

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing – no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female – could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

– Geoffrey Ward

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