Quotes of: American-life Keyword

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.

Noam Chomsky

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Noam Chomsky

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Christa McAuliffe

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

A. J. Liebling

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Nancy Pearcey

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Steve Winwood

Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.

Atul Gawande

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.

Kate del Castillo

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Karl Rove

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Dave Winfield

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

Sam Donaldson

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

Estelle

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Judd Gregg

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

Mark Zandi

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

Rand Paul

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Rand Paul

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Jacob Lew

Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.

Charles Duhigg

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.

Robert Reich

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Bruce Feiler