Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Chelsea Clinton

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

Chris Cornell

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

George J. Mitchell

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Gilles Marini

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

Grace Meng

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

Gerhard Schroder

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

Gordon Sinclair

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

George Takei

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

Gordon Waller

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Geoffrey Wood

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

Hans Kung

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

Helmut Kohl

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry A. Kissinger

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Herman Kahn

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John A. Powell

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

John Prendergast