American Values Quotes - Page 3

• All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

  Steven Hatfill

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

  Barack Obama

  Apology, Iraq, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

  Hillary Clinton

  Optimistic, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.

  Leonard Peltier

  Native American, Law, Rights

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.

  Todd Haynes

  Home, Artist, Interesting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Dennis Prager

  People, Value Systems, Values

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• There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and write--and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Writing, Native American

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Appreciate, Prison, Shows

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 465, 1991.

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• I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

  John Green

  Humility, Hard Work, Class

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• It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Winning, Liberty

  "Bush Discussing War With Congress". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2001.

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

  Barack Obama

  People, Borders, Tradition

  "Former NATO Commander Reacts To Obama's Foreign Policy Speech". www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

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• Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Comfort

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

  Matt Blaze

  Believe, Light, Security And Freedom

  "Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws" by Declan Mccullagh, www.wired.com. September 13, 2001.

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• I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.

  John Kasich

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

  Colin Powell

  People, Marketing, World

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• George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both achieved something. Those policies made sense, and it's to the credit of both Presidents Bush and Obama that even as they reached out to Russia, they did not sacrifice core American interests, or core American values. We didn't give the Russians on the altar of better relations other countries. We were able to do two things at once.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, Sacrifice, Russia

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

  Van Jones

  People, Architect, Seeing

  Source: pen.org

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• European and American values do not fully coincide.

  Vladimir Putin

  Values

  Source: russialist.org

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• If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, People, Immigration

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• There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

  Noam Chomsky

  Acceptance, Government, Rejection

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• The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

  Al Gore

  Betrayed, Administration, Hunger

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• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Retirement, Fighting, Equal Pay

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  Jim Costa

  Party, Land, Accountability

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• The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

  Christine Pelosi

  Lying, Democracy, Minimum Wage

  "When Corporate Speech Jeopardizes Equality We Can’t Just “Shut It Off” — Women Must Pursue Citizens United Reform" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

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• The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'

  Husain Haqqani

  New York, Teaching, Home

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