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"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was american, making Sir Winston part Iroquois indian." »Rachel Blanchard
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"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
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"I was born an american I will live an american I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any indian." »Robert Orben
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"It looks as if it was put in by an indian. (looking at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a factory tour near Edinburgh)" »Prince Phillip
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"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original american, the indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations." »John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an indian said simply, Ours." »Father Andrew SDC
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"If you were a poor indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"As long as I am an american citizen and american blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject." »Elija Lovejoy
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"The quality of american life must keep pace with the quantity of american goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." »John F. Kennedy
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"N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"american foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of american influence into generations of democratic peace." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"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
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"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
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"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an american and nothing else, or he is not an american at all." »Teddy Roosevelt
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"An indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign." »Russell Smith
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"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth." »Chief Joseph
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"The only reason I made a commercial for american Express was to pay for my american Express bill." »Peter Ustinov
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"What then is the american, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an american." »Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
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"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
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"Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies." »Alexander Pope
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the american black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The american white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the american black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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""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 Jones
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"american can do better, and help is on the way." »John Kerry, speech in 2004
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"The 100% american is 99% an idiot." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I let the american people down." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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