If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
Donald Rumsfeld

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
Donald Rumsfeld

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
Vladimir Putin

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover Cleveland

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
Lee Harvey Oswald

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
Lee Harvey Oswald

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
Ziggy Marley

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
Nora Roberts

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Kid Rock

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Vivien Leigh