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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
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
- American Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not an African. I am an American.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.
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- Nov 07, 2020