Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions…

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart,…

— Paul Washer

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps…

— Jeb Hensarling

I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel…

— George Carlin

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all…

— Barack Obama

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as…

— Jeb Bush

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

— Fred Tomaselli

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves,…

— Tim Huelskamp

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…

— Ayad Akhtar