American People Quotes


The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

I used to say to my late wife 'I have great faith in the American people.'

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

The American people on the ground need a clearer stronger Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings and a lot of people would run away.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Category after category Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

I'm concerned the clock is ticking and the danger to the American people is still very present.

Barack Obama believes he has the same kind of connection to the American people that Trump has.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is they don't know what they want.

It's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent rigid characters and people remember them

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle where the American people are.

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us the American people.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

If we invest in the American people the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

I come by my conservatism authentically not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of and are running away from their own revolution.

In fact the American people did decide back in 2012 when they elected me president of the United States.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

I turn then and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

If the American people knew what we have done they would string us up from the lamp posts.

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic as an Asian American woman.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

The American people want change and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True but also an example of political posturing.

I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.

In choosing Paul Ryan Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

People are often frightened of Parisians but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

American people are not evil. Given information they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

It is critical that the American people and not just their financial institutions be represented at the negotiating table.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

The choice couldn't be more clear for the American people. Donald Trump has been completely consistent in his positions.

We're certainly gonna keep our commitment to the American people to make every effort we can to repeal [Obamacare].

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

When you tell the American people 'Read my lips. No new taxes ' that should mean no new taxes.

I like my subjects to be American and not too dead so I can interview people who knew them.

Mr. Starr have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Of course as a German I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington D.C. and the lack of action.

This story I predict will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

We're not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the American people. No longer.

The American people have now spoken but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves they're going to do that.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

American people are a little tired of anybody saying let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

The American people are slow to wrath but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

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

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American not a Christian and worse.

The lesser of two evils or the least of the worst is not good enough for the American people anymore.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers and it is time that we act.

I am confident with the leadership and the backing of the American people President Obama will turn this country around

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness with the possible exception of stupidity.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience or the patience of the American people is running out

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman others knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

The Ku Klux Klan stands for free speech free public schools the open Bible for our people and for 100% American citizenship.

When the Democrat Party lost to Ronald Reagan in two landslides it was the American people's fault. It was Reagan's fault.

It's a very tough thing to run for office but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

In American cinema people will take a chance on you though they'll often remind you that really they always liked you.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker he got results for the American people.

There is only one core issue in the immigration debate and that issue is the well being of the American people.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy to our consulate as well as potentially to the American people.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war his presidency will be over.

There is no perception among the American people nor their elected representatives that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

I am never tired of winning and as your president I will win for you the American people. I'm with you!

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions probably.

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

People always think American politics is very different but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit determination and courage than you can imagine.

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana that's what I'll do in America.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

I care about 100 percent of the American people. I want 100 percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future.

Property as compared with humanity as compared with the red blood in the American people must take second place not first place.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

And if we get caught I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

At no time did I intend to or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible terrible tragedy.

The American people don't really care what side of an issue you're on. They just don't want you to act like a pussy.

One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

Now unless you have billions of dollars it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan-but they don't know what to copy!

I feel that we have come a long way as American people and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

If I could go I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

I like his consistency because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened not the American people.

When the American people get through with the English language it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly and not to see him only through the press.

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

We are not hiding things from the American people but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer and that we are safer when we are stronger

I don't have a philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage saying that their taxes are at risk I actually disagree.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

If this humor be the safety of our race then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

You need mentors people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

We focused so much on saying "Don't vote for them and here's why" and we didn't tell the American people "Vote for us and here's why.

This is what I would ask of the American people and that is and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

You know if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

I want to - on behalf of myself and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people say that you know our word is good.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

The American people deserve long-term forward-thinking policies.

People are motivated to vote early to defend core American values.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas big reform.

I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking it is courage.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.

Donald Trump understands the frustrations and the hopes of the American people.

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

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

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

I prefer to stay on the important issues facing the American people.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

The truth is immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.

No matter what happens we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

Thus biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Give the American people a good cause and there's nothing they can't lick.

The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

I don't think the American people if you look historically elect angry candidates.

We are telling the American people to have patience courage resolve and determination.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

I can assure you this is not about spying on the American people.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people.

I think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people.

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

The American people may not be the best-educated but they're very wise at heart.

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese but in essence they are fundamentally American.

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

The American people demand results not rhetoric especially when it comes to national security issues.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

I think the American people understandably have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.

America I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American by and large.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American poetry I have doubts.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

Thinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian not American.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.