California must be all American or all Chinese. We are…

Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall…

— James G. Blaine

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room,…

— William J. Clinton

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

— Ezra Stiles

Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship…

— Zhou Enlai

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was…

— Tess Gerritsen

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their…

— Nathan Chen

“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked her formative…

— Stephen M. Ward

“The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines--the closer to really beginning to act, in short--the more Chinese they begin…

— Arthur Miller

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel…

— Stephen Harper

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

— John Conyers

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith