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• And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Business

  Tags in American, Fact

• Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in History

  Tags in American

• I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in History

  Tags in American, Troops

• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, President, Protection

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, American

•  Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Service

  Tags in American, Men And Women

• The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Strength, Freedom

• We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in American

• I’m tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

  Susan Sarandon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tired, American

• Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

  Susan Rice

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security, American

• I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

  Susan Rice

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Internment, Camp

• Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Asian, American

• You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Internment

• What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

  Susan Faludi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Electorate

• I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

  Tom T. Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  Fay Godwin

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Artist, American

• The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, President

• There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, President, Investigations, Attention

• I’ve been wanting to sing for a long time. I’ve been singing all my life, and I’ve tried different record companies, but it seemed like – it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, ‘I’m gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.’

  Fantasia Barrino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, American, Struggle