Quotes of: Fellow-americans Keyword

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

Nat King Cole

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

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Ralph Nader

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

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

Mitch McConnell

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

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Phil Gramm

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