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Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Cedric Richmond

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these thing...

Sarah Lacy

four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Lee Siegel

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Norman Lear

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Kit Bond

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Max Beerbohm

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Blanche Lincoln

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Patton: Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admir...

Patton

The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a “Jewish writer, ” but it was he who demonstrated how a Jewish voice could speak for an integrated America. Wit...

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Toni Morrison

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

Russell Means

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Alan Dershowitz

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Benjamin Rush

Little boy: A naked American man stole my balloons.

An American Werewolf in London

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversi...

Ken Salazar

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, Americ...

Shashi Tharoor