- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
- Gripping
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020