American
There’s a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: African, American, Community, Entertainment, Famous, Sports
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: America, American, Child, Education, Famous, Private, Public, School, Think, Wealthy, Wealthy People
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: American, Chance, Dreams, Equal, Famous, Market, Share
The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what’s immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Acceptance, American, Dreams, Famous, Names, Tolerance
I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: American, Ethos, Famous, Grew Up, Little, Oklahoma, Values.
I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: American, Cars, Driving, Famous
I know only two words of American slang, ‘swell’ and ‘lousy’.
I think ‘swell’ is lousy, but ‘lousy’ is swell.
Topics: American, Famous, Know, Lousy, Swell, Thinking, Two words
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: American, Canadian, Difference, Different, Famous, Feeling, Neighbors, Refused, Together
There’s nothing like a compliment to turn any right-thinking American male into your basic monosyllabic kind of guy.
Author: J. A. JanceTopics: American, Compliment, Famous, Guy, Male, Right, Thinking
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Air, America, American, Cunning, Cunning men, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Innocence, Innocent lives, Innocent people, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
The chips are in production, the machines aren’t. So we’ve got a little bit of work left to do.
Author: J AllardTopics: American, Famous, Left, Machines, Production, Scientists, Work
This time with Xbox 360, we’ve got the experienced team, we’ve shipped a lot of console games and built some incredible franchises.
Author: J AllardTopics: American, Built, Famous, Franchises, Games, Incredible, Scientists, Time
We’re going to do something that’s really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It’s never been done before.
Author: J AllardTopics: American, Console, Famous, Launch, Major, Market, Scientists
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.
Author: James Madison
Topics: American, Country, Famous, Humanity, Law, Mean, Violation
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs regret. The origin and outset of the American Republic contain lessons of which posterity ought not to be deprived: and happily there never was a case in which every interesting incident could be so accurately preserved.
Author: James MadisonTopics: American, Education, Famous, Interesting, Origin, Periods, Regret
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.
Author: James MadisonTopics: American, Famous, People, Practice, Serious
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don’t get creative writing like that any more.
Author: A. E. HotchnerTopics: Advert, Advertisement, Advertising, America, America's enemies, American, Creating, Creating Momentum, Creation, Daylight, Days, Flourish, Flowering Earth, Flowers, Positive role, positively, Taste, Tasteful, Year
What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.
Author: James MadisonTopics: American, Famous, Fathers, Found, Influence, Liberties, Political, Religious freedom, Tyranny, Unapologetic, Values.
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It’s there to be a museum showcase of all that’s great about American music.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Acceptance, American, Context, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Rock
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: American, Famous, Freedom, Gender, History, War, Women
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it’s amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Amazing, American, Famous, Jobs, Society
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it’s really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there’s been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: American, Famous, History, Ideas, Identify, Impact, Recognized
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: American, Famous, Fighting, Freedom, History, Struggling, War, Women
I’m Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: American, Canadian, Famous, Meaningful, Politics, Wheelhouse
Oppenheimer’s defeat was also a defeat for American liberalism.
Author: Kai BirdTopics: American, Defeat, Famous, Liberalism, Oppenheimer
All I at any point needed to be was leader of the American League
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Acceptance, America, American, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, leader, Leaders, Leadership, Leads, Life, Meaningful
Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
Author: K. A. PaulTopics: American, Building, Famous, Legal, Moderate, Mosque, Muslim, Right
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there’s something to be said about the world’s mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
Author: K'naanTopics: American, Domination, Economics, Famous, Interesting, Mindset, Music, Thinking, Visions
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that’s totally alien to it.
Author: K'naanTopics: Aliens, American, Duplication, Experience, Famous, Hip Hop
Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: American, Famous, Knock out, Military, Praise
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: American, Central feature, Centuries, Economy, Labor
A president can start a war under relatively specious circumstances, and once American soldiers are under fire, Americans will support the soldiers and support the president.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: American, Circumstances, Famous, Fire, President, Soldiers, Support, War
I certainly don’t think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: American, Famous, Noble class, Revolution, Thinking
In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: American, Become, Famous, Military, Modern times
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: American, Famous, Military, Pie, Violence
And one of the things that I’m most concerned about is the confidence, the confidentiality of those kind of meetings between President and Russian Foreign Minister, as you know, are extremely important. And so, I am really concerned about kind of leaks, because it undermines everybody’s trust in that kind of an environment where you can have frank, candid, and often times unconventional conversations to try to protect American interests and secure the American people.
Author: H. R. McMasterTopics: American, Concerned, Confidence, Confidentiality, Famous, Important, Meetings, People, President, Protecting
The only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: American, Famous, Invention, Perfect
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Admire, American, Detest, Famous, Liar, Men, People, Truth, Violent
The American soil is full of the corpses of my ancestors. Why is my freedom or my citizenship, or my right to live there, how is it conceivably a question now
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful, Question
If the American Negro, the American black man, is going to become a free person in this country, the people of this country have to give up something. If they don’t give it up, it will be taken from them.
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Country, Famous, Meaningful
The American triumph—in which the American tragedy has always been implicit—was to make black people despise themselves.
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Tragedy
One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful, Strike
The American Negro has had to accommodate a vast amount of hatred since he’s been here
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Amount, Famous, Meaningful
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually
Author: James BaldwinTopics: American, Famous, Insist, Meaningful
I think there’s a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community – that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: African, American, Community, Famous, Global, Thinking
Hollywood needs to recognize all shades of African American beauty.
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: African, American, Beauty, Famous, Hollywood, Recognize
In Omaha, we were part of the largest African American extended family in Nebraska. In Pleasanton, we would be the chocolate chip in the cookie.
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: African, American, Chocolate, Famous, Life Experiences
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Author: Theodore RooseveltTopics: America, American, Americans, Country, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, People, Place, Placed, Places
While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there’s a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.
Author: Gabriel LunaTopics: American, Famous, Football, Moving, Soccer
Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It’s global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: American, Brand new, Famous, Global, Stand-up comedy, Things
I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: American, Famous, Inspirational, Self-Identification, Travel, World
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Topics: American, American Idol, Morality, Morally, Morally Right, Observant, Observation, President, Right, Right cards, Right decisions, Stand, Stand Up
What America needs now is a drink
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: America, American, Drink, Drinking, Drinking Alcohol, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Need, Needing
I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Ambitious, America, American, American Dream, Forget, Forgetfulness, House, Housekeeping, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: America, American, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Portion, Voting, Voting rights, Will, Will power, Willingness
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, the American people want us to legislate, they want us to insist on furthering their set of values, but they also want us to resist and exercise our oversight powers.
Author: Ilhan OmarTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful, walk
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say ‘okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.’
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: American, Being, Famous, First, Gymnastics, History, Influence, Inspirational, Positive Impact, Possible, World
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
Author: Iain BanksTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful, Wanted
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Author: Hamilton JordanTopics: American, Famous, Future, Meaningful, People
I am trying to make my accent so it won’t bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Author: ShakiraTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful
The average American is just like the child in the family.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: American, Average, Family, Famous, Life, Meaningful
I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: American, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Never, Opportunity, Position
I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: American, Black, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: American, Famous, History, Meaningful
Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: American, Famous, Meaningful, Water
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: American, Civil war, Conflicts, Economic, Famous, History, Population
You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Agenda, America, American, Belief in God, Believe, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Seekers, Seeking comfort
I’ve been asked to do ‘American Idol’ and ‘X Factor.’ I’m an Ed McMahon kind of girl. ‘Star Search?’ I’m in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn’t oversaturated with karaoke contests.
Author: PinkTopics: American, American Idol, Authentic, Contests, Famous, Girl, Karaoke, Market, Oversaturated, X Factor
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except. in American colleges.
Author: Paul HarveyTopics: American, Defeated, Famous, Meaningful
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: American, Country, Famous, Sense of privacy
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
Author: George S. PattonTopics: America, American, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Traditions, War
Realizing that we cannot live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: American, European, Healthy, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Inspire, Realise, Realities, Resolution, Resources
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I’ll go along with them
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Along, Ambitious, American, Peace, Peace president, Peaceably, Public, Think, Thinking mind
To the young American, here or elsewhere, the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open; There is invitation in the air and success in all his wide horizon.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: American, Famous, Fortune, Innumerable, Invitation, Meaningful, Young
Old Glory represents our great American military and their sacrifices to ensure our freedom. This isn’t a political issue. This is about Patriotism, and we need more of it.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: American, American Military, Famous, Meaningful, Patriotism, Political, Sacrifices
The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: American, Famous, Federal, Flag, Government, Meaningful, People
The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: Action, American, Anarchy, Enforcement, Famous, Heroic, Law, Meaningful
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: American, Atmosphere, Extreme, Famous, Freedom, Individuals, Inspirational, Meaningful, Pervasive, Racism, Society
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered… deeply, …finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: American, Destiny, Famous, Government, Hands, Inspirational, Liberty, Preservation, Sacred fire
Margaret Walker’s work emphasizes the importance of celebrating and honoring African American culture and history.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: African, American, Celebrating, Culture, Emphasizes, Famous, History, Honoring, Importance, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Work
The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: American, Discrimination, Famous, Inspirational, National pride, Patriotism
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: America, American, Country, Famous, Generous, Meaningful, Positive, Younger
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Ability, American, Capitalism, Consistently, European, Famous, Flexibility, Government, Inspirational, Jobs, Meaningful, Significant, Success, Successful, Traditionally
American suffragist, speech “Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?” at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: American, Endeavoring, Famous, Freedom, Meaningful, People, Radicalism, Stockholm, Suffragist, Sweden, Woman's
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs, and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: American, Clubs, Concerned, Famous, Friends, Hypocritical, Inspirational, Meaningful, Societies, White
Quotas are bad for America. It’s not the way America is all about.
Topics: American, Bad, Famous, Perspective, QuotasThe American Dream is dead, and we need to wake up to that reality.
Author: George CarlinTopics: American, Dead, Dream, Famous, Reality, Wake Up
It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America’s mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life
Author: Audre LordeTopics: American, Destiny, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Societal Expectations
Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands – Nike, Puma, Coke – all over their bodies.
Author: George CarlinTopics: American, Branded, Brands, Considering, Famous, Funny, Herd of cattle
When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
Author: George CarlinTopics: America, American, Born, Famous, Front row seat, Ticket
I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.
Author: George CarlinTopics: American, Famous, Identity, Irish Catholic
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
Author: George CarlinTopics: American, Famous, Inspirational, IQ, Life expectancy, Opposite directions, Passed
The idea that we must choose between the method of “winning hearts and minds” and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: American, Idea, Method, Methods, Winner, Winning
When Kennedy said, ‘Let’s go to the moon,’ we didn’t yet have a vehicle that wouldn’t kill you on launch. He said we’ll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: American, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful, Moon, People
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Author: Benjamin FranklinTopics: American, Catch, Constitution, Guarantee, Happiness
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Acceptance, American, Equality, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedoms, Life, Meaningful
I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Barack, Famous, Life, Limitation, Limited, Meaningful, Operation, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Troops
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Americans, Earns, Experiences, Famous, People, Perfectly, Year
Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Americans, Famous, Honest, Honesty, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, Realistic
Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Barack, Business, Encourage, Famous, Industries, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nation, Positive, Universities
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Americans, Country, Families, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Religion
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Acceptance, Afford, American, Famous, Meaningful, Tax, Wealthy People
Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Education, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Job, Meaningful, Positive, Poverty, Retirement, Year
First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Economy, Famous, Leading, Technology, World
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Americans, Famous, God, Nation, President, United States
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Americans, Atlantic, Country, Famous, Pacific, Stranger, Strangers, Worships
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Barack, Equality, Family, Peaceful, Public, Respect
America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Country, Earth, Famous, Promises, Reason, Respect
There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Famous, Meaningful, United States
I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Americans, Famous, Feelings, Lesbians, Life, Meaningful, Principles, Recognition, Transgender
I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Direction, Driving, Famous, Hybrid
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: African, American, Empathy, Famous, Judge, Recognize, Somebody, Teenage
Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, leader, Meaningful, Positive
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Country, Dream, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Political, Positive, Washington
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Business, Experiences, Famous, Helped, Invested, Meaningful, Positive, Successful
And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Doctor, Famous, Health, Healthy, Meaningful, Positive, Reform
We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Country, Crisis, Famous, Leadership, Learn, Learned, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Rebuilding
In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Appreciate, Appreciation, Europe, Failure, Famous, Leading, Meaningful, Positive, Role, World
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Acknowledge, Acknowledgement, Addressed, America, American, Communities, Community, Discrimination, Famous, Inspirational, Legacy, Life, Meaningful, Positive
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Famous, Immigrants, Meaningful, Nation, Positive, Strangers
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Exceptionalism, Famous, Meaningful
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Acceptance, America, American, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Believe, Believed, Country, Experiences, Faith, Famous, Meaningful, Stronger
Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: America, American, Equal, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nation, Opportunity
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: American, Education, Experiences, Famous, Gateway, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, Skill
I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: American, Black History, History, Month
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: American, Black Hero, Hero, King, Martin Luther