American People Quotes

#1. The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

John Yarmuth

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

Wendell Willkie

#3. Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

Jo Bonner

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

Al Franken

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

Lincoln Steffens

#6. Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

Harry Browne

#7. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.

Paul Craig Roberts

#8. I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.

Barack Obama

#9. The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

Will Durst

#10. I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Lyn Nofziger

#11. We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

Jedediah Bila

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

Paul Begala

#13. You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time ...

Whoopi Goldberg

#14. By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

Mike Pence

#15. So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Robin Hayes

#16. When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

John O. Brennan

#17. My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

William Lloyd Garrison

#18. In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

Ann Coulter

#19. Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

Elliott Abrams

#20. Am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people ...

Virchand Gandhi

#21. When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#23. I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

Chen Guangcheng

#24. What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

James Chanos

#25. And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

Michael Scheuer

#26. Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

Jeff Sessions

#27. I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine ...

Mitt Romney

#28. I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.

Hillary Clinton

#29. How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Michael Ignatieff

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

Andrea Tantaros

#31. I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

Richard Lugar

#32. We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

Marlin Stutzman

#33. I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

Ashley Jensen

#34. President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

Mitt Romney

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

Jose Antonio Vargas

#36. We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

John McCain

#37. The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The

Charles Murray

#38. The American people are frustrated.

Pam Bondi

#39. 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.

Eric Holder

#40. What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.

Mike Pence

#41. Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Joe Wilson

#42. I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

William E. Simon

#43. I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Grover Cleveland

#44. This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

Chris Christie

#45. It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

Dave Barry

#46. Suppose we were planning to impose a dictatorial regime upon the American people - the following preparations would be essential:

Edward Abbey

#47. I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

George W. Bush

#48. Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

Jesse Ventura

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

Tim Robbins

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

Chris Christie

#51. The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Jason Chaffetz

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

Ralph McGehee

#53. In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#54. As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged with the responsibility to examine whether to entrust their precious rights and liberties to [Supreme Court] nominee.

Patrick Leahy

#55. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Joe Biden

#56. There is really no crisis except an artificial one ... If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Abraham Lincoln

#57. We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

Al Gore

#58. The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.
Billy Mitchell

James D. Bradley

#59. Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Sean Hannity

#60. The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.

Marsha Blackburn

#61. It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

William J. Clinton

#62. 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.

John McCain

#63. Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Bob Beauprez

#64. It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.

Will Rogers

#65. My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

Ron Paul

#66. I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

John Cornyn

#67. Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

James Bovard

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

Monica Crowley

#69. I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

Marianne Williamson

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

Benjamin Carson

#71. Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Herbert Hoover

#72. When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#73. These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

Seth Low

#74. Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.

Charles Koch

#75. We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

Wayne LaPierre

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

John F. Kerry

#77. I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.

Jimmy Carter

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

David Halberstam

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

Raul Grijalva

#80. The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Ward Churchill

#81. And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Barack Obama

#82. We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#83. A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

William Bennett

#84. The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Ronald Reagan

#85. But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Alberto Gonzales

#86. Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.

David Icke

#87. Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

Ron Wyden

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

David Duke

#89. I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

George W. Bush

#90. Zionism is not the Jewish people, it is a political movement. Many Jews do not support it, many non-Jews do. To say that Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Yet to challenge the extremes of Zionism is to be called anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish.

David Icke

#91. 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

#92. There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

Claire McCaskill

#93. I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

Paul Robeson

#94. I understand what it takes to make a bright and prosperous future for America again. I spent my life in the private sector, not in government. I'm a guy who wants to help with the experience I have, the American people.

Mitt Romney

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

Mark Udall

#96. What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

John McCain

#97. The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Ted Cruz

#98. Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

#99. Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.

Daniel Ellsberg

#100. The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Donald Trump