Quotes of: American-people Keyword

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

William E. Simon

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

Trey Parker

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

Douglas Sirk

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Kent Conrad

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

Ziggy Marley

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons,...

American Gods

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electr...

American Gods

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples...

James F. Byrnes

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

Bernie Sanders

Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor mini...

Harry S. Truman

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

Stephen Kinzer

Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.

Mitchell Joachim

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

R. T. Rybak

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we'...

Isaiah Washington

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Philipp Meyer