I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
PowerPeopleAmericanButtJokes
I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
La'Porsha Renae
GreatStartThinkAmericanGolden
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.
Simon Rattle
FearWorldThoughtAmericanWonder
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
Edmund Phelps
WorkInnovationDedicationAmerican
The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
Mike Simpson
WorldAmericanGoalPriceNowPaid
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.
Jon Meacham
LifeThinkAmericanKindRunBelief
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
CarPeopleAmericanProblemYou
I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
John Cornyn
SupportPeopleThinkVotingAmerican
There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.
Bret Stephens
PeopleAmericanYearLibertyKind
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
R. J. Cutler
HopePeopleAmericanHighSomething
Coca-Cola is an American icon.
John Quelch
AmericanCoca-ColaIcon
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
Gary Shteyngart
GoodAmericanBe NiceNiceFiction
The partisan warfare fueled by modern technology does not fairly reflect the grace and dignity of the American people.
Rod Rosenstein
TechnologyPeopleGraceAmerican
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
Mitt Romney
FreedomPathPeaceWarAmerican
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
Joe Biden
AmericanCreditComplicatedThree
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton
WomenCapitalismProcessAmerican
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
Xavier Becerra
HeartWorldAmericanAssociation
This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop.
Matt Gonzalez
AmericanStopKindUpWhereGoing
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.
Winston Marshall
MusicBeautifulPeopleAmericanYou
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
Lady Gaga
PeopleListeningSongAmericanLook
It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.
Trey Gowdy
AmericanFarmYouImmigrantPay
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
Edmund White
PeopleBlackAmericanConversation
The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
Martin O'Malley
PoliticsVoiceAmericanToo MuchOur
I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
Jon Secada
AmericanMightCubanAlso
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about American