Quotes of: American-citizens Keyword

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

P. J. O'Rourke

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Robert Dallek

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Theodore White

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

Nick Rahall

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Betty Friedan

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denzel Washington

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.

American

Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.

Native American

He who lives on illusions, dies of disillusion.

South American

He who prays a lot is afraid of something.

South American

Two cats will not live together in one sack.

South American

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes...

Restoring Education: Central to American Greatness Fifteen Principles That Liberated Mankind from the Politics of Tyranny

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great tha...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy...

Mohsin Hamid

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best t...

Nicholas D. Kristof

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing th...

William T. Vollmann

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

Marc Racicot

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon