| "I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner |
| "I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American." »Daniel Webster |
| "We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American." »Maya Angelou |
| "The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American." »Malcolm X |
| "But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." »Geoffrey F. Albert |
| "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson |
| "If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes |
| ""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Yones |
| "I let the American people down." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "I greet you as the shapers of American society." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "An American is a man with two arms and four wheels." »A Chinese Child |
| "There is a need for heroism in American life today." »Vicki Baum |
| "Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease." »John Corry |
| "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes." »Gore Vidal |
| "I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues." »Jerry Coleman |
| "To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career." »George Santayana |
| "Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink." »Gore Vidal |
| "The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves." »Irwin Edman |
| "The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself." »John Ciardi |
| "If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot." »John A. Dix |
| "Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses." »George Will |
| "The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being." »Albert Einstein |
| "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way." »Al Capone |
| "The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
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