I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. – Jean-Luc Godard
Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work. – James P. Hoffa
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. – Juliette Binoche
I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments. – Inbee Park
I’m a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I’m an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I’ve gotta sell my products in every corner of the world. – Jeffrey R. Immelt
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you – he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. – Israel Zangwill
I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can’t be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man. – Isaiah Washington
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. – Jesse Jackson
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor’s right to live has been challenged and denied. – John L. Lewis
I’m interested in light. It’s a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach. – James Turrell
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play ‘The Crucible’ analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. – Jane Smiley
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. – Jacob Lew
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. – Jackie Chan
The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand. – Joe Biden
Cinema explains American society. It’s like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don’t have a place. – Jacques Delors
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood. – John Mellencamp
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. – John Ridley
In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it’s five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is. – Jamie Dimon
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer’s accent. That’s just pretending to be something you ain’t. – Joe Strummer
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. – James Q. Wilson
Whatever I learned reading ‘Scientific American,’ nothing can finally compete with your own observations. – Jim Harrison