Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

Bob Taft

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Neil Sheehan

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Gouverneur Morris

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Rush Limbaugh

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

Dan Rosensweig

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

Reza Aslan

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

John Garamendi

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

Frederick Jackson Turner

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Henry Rollins

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Julian Bond

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Edward Ball

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Barbara Mikulski

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Garrison Keillor

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

Grover Norquist

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Henry Bonilla

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.

J.S.B. Morse

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

John Russell