Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

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

Hillary Clinton

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henry Louis Gates

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

Hamilton Jordan

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Jacques Maritain

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

Jason Mraz

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Jay McInerney

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

Jefferson Mays

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

Jerry Moran

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

John McCain

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

John M. McHugh

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

J. B. Priestley

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

James Reston

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

Jim Ramstad

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

John Ratzenberger

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Jeremy Thomas

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

John Updike

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

James Q. Wilson

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Dave Barry

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

David Dinkins