Quotes of: American-people Keyword

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

Dave Sim

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Dominique de Villepin

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Diane Wakoski

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Eric Liu

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bianca Jagger

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bianca Jagger

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Bruce Jackson

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

Bharati Mukherjee

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

Bill Murray

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Barack Obama

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Clay Aiken

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

Conrad Black

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.

Grace Meng

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

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

George S. Patton Jr.

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

Gordon Sinclair

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

Gloria Trevi