Top 355 American People Quotes

The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict.
Ben Sasse
I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He’s the first rapper I started listening to.
Rich Brian
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That’s the way it ought to be.
James Comey
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
Blanche Lincoln
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn’t about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
Paula Jones
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
Bill Shuster
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
Shirley Chisholm
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
Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
John Mica
I’m a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I’m a promoter of America. I’m American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls ’cause the bell tolls for thee.
Don King
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
Louis Stokes
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Gloria Naylor
The American people know what's necessary to get this e

The American people know what’s necessary to get this economy moving again. It’s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
Mike Pence
I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
Richard Perle
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
Kendrick Meek
America’s trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.
Ben Rhodes
The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn’t conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton – especially Clinton in ’96.
Lyn Nofziger
We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan Quayle
Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.
Tom Fitton
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
Chris Bell
Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that’s unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don’t say to the American people you deserve better than you’re getting? That’s not the practical we want.
Nina Turner
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
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don’t think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
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
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.
Louis Freeh
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy
I am honored to be nominated by President Trump to lead the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security in safeguarding the American people.
Chad Wolf
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
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
Donald Rumsfeld
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people – good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That’s why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
Barry Marshall
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Nick Rahall
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.
Charlie Norwood
Trump’s position is that the people who are most victimised by black criminals are law-abiding black people, and he’s been doing very well with the African American people by taking that message to them.
Ann Coulter
The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn’t what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It’s easy for us to make the argument that God’s purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
Walter Russell Mead
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The American people do not want to waste billions of dollars on a wall that won’t stop illegal immigration but will make America look fearful and foolish.
Tom Malinowski
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Nancy Pelosi
I think more than any point in history… part of the job of the White House press secretary is to rebuild trust with the American people.
Jen Psaki
Most of us complain about Congress. We say it’s a place that doesn’t reflect us; they don’t listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
Bob Inglis
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
Jay Inslee
I think the American people deserve somebody telling th

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
Jack Abramoff
The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton’s standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.
James Wolcott
The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
Raul Grijalva
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The American people deserve to have access to as many qualified candidates as possible, not only the ones who can afford to buy name recognition or who already have it.
Wayne Messam
I have no doubt that if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on the bench reveal a commitment to judicial independence – a record that should give the American people confidence that he will not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.
Neal Katyal
None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
Michael Huffington