Quotes of: American-interests Keyword

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Robert T. Bakker

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Jose Rizal

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Francis Parker Yockey

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

Clare Bowen

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of th...

Marie-Chantal Claire

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open -...

David Henry Hwang

Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.

Charles B. Rangel

The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers' only interest is what's best for the country, not their own financial gain.

Kirsten Gillibrand

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Rodrigo Rato

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

David Duke

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Abdallah II of Jordan

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

Thomas Frank

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

George Soros

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

John Updike

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

Ronald D. Moore

Ricky Fitts: I didn't mean to scare you. I just think you're interesting.

American Beauty

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

Arundhati Roy