If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. Johnson

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
Dick Armey

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman

There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan Quayle

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan Quayle

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Al Capone

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Ambrose Bierce