American Aspirations Quotes

I think it's saying really that Donald Trump was the one person in the room who got it right, who understood America and reflected back to them what their aspirations and their fears and their frustrations were.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

[Repudiating communist support:] The Communists have admittedly entered into this political movement not for the purpose of curing, by means of the ballot, the evils which afflict the American people, but only to divide and confuse the Progressive movement and create a condition of chaos favorable to their ultimate aims. Their real purpose is to establish by revolutionary action a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is absolutely repugnant to democratic ideals and to all American aspirations.

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations.

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.