The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore Vidal

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
David Foster Wallace

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
Dick Gregory

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
Jimmy Carter

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee

I let the American people down.
Richard M. Nixon

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Richard M. Nixon

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Richard M. Nixon