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

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
Gene Simmons

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Marquis de Lafayette

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
Neil Young

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
Dorothy Day

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington

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

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
Gerald R. Ford

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin

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

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
Adolf Galland