Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Barbara Mikulski

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Garrison Keillor

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

Grover Norquist

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Henry Bonilla

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.

J.S.B. Morse

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

John Russell

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Dianne Feinstein

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

David Guetta

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Dinaw Mengestu

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

James Dickey

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

Jesse Jackson

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

James Lafferty

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

James A. Michener

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Barbara Boxer

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

Jan C. Ting

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Martin Lewis Perl

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Azar Nafisi

Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.

George Kaiser

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

Marcus Samuelsson