#american

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us. ↗

— William S. Paley

#american #american public #doing #expect #give

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#american citizens #averaging #citizens #crimes #day

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#anti-american #arizona #around #attack #controversial

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#american audiences #audiences #british #expressive #more

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american people #aspiration #because #best #best work

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american #american people #blueprint #budget #children

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

#american #american people #any #ensures #people

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american people #bailout #behind #bill #capitol

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#fellow #fellow americans #great #i #majority