Quotes of: American-people Keyword

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

Noam Chomsky

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Emily Mortimer

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Jeb Bush

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Leslie Caron

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Mike Nichols

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Marco Rubio

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

Charlotte Rampling

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

Ferdinand Marcos

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Lester Maddox

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Rand Paul

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Tom Robbins

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

Anchee Min

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

Gail Sheehy

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Rob Sheffield

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

Imogen Poots

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.

Jose Andres Puerta

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

Madeleine M. Kunin