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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Colonies, Statesmanship

• There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Gulf, American, Theory

• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Human, American

• One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year.

  Robert A. Brady

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Single, Year, American

• I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Government, American

• The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Possibilities, Mature

• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, English, Literature

• Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina’s heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurricane, American, Damage

• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People, President, American

• This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

  Elliot Lee Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Scandals, American, Greatest, Political

• I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  Adam Michnik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, American, Political

• France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

  Adam Michnik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, American, Primitive

• The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  Adam Lambert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, American

• The American Dream is a phrase we’ll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we’re redefining it now.

  Rita Dove

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Different, American

• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, American, Loophole, Terrorists

• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there’s so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you’re able to see other people’s experiences.

  Rick Yune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Through, Rich, American

• It’s true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren’t going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

  Adam Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Yourself, American

• I’ve never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell’s been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

  Wentworth Miller

  Topics in Money

  Tags in American

• You know, in 1975 I couldn’t get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Experience, Job

  Tags in American

• I have a lot of influences. I’m American-schooled. I’m classically trained. I’m a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don’t pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor’s degree, but I’m still a cook.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Schooled, Trained