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• I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in American, Always

• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Money

  Tags in American, Newspaper

• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Politicians, American

• Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Children

  Tags in American

• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama’s impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Presidential, Nominations

• Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Government, Situation

• American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Journalists

• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  Fernando Alonso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Think, American

• American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

  Edward Albee

  Topics in America

  Tags in Dull, Criticism, American

• The United Nations is a place for pr*s*itution under the feet of Americans.

  Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

  Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Scorn, People, American

• What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

  Margot Asquith

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  Daniel Akaka

  Topics in Country

  Tags in American, Assistance, Neighboring, Insulated, City

• It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

  Margot Asquith

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  George Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Income, American, Belong, Access, True, Public, Water

• I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It’s at the point now where it’s old.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, During, Sixteen, Week

• They’re sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they’re next on the list. The president comes along, and he’s got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he’s going to save them.

  Edward Asner

  Topics in America

  Tags in American, Sheep

• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

  Mortimer J. Adler

  Topics in America

  Tags in Christianity, Presidency, Faith, Problems, American

• Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Topics in America

  Tags in People, Choice, American

• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.

  John Adams

  Topics in America

  Tags in Political, Independence, American