Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past.
‐‐ Greg Abbott
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
‐‐ Shirley Hazzard
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
Americans have a casual vibe that I love so much.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni
Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.
‐‐ Juan Williams
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
‐‐ Alan Dundes
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
‐‐ Hampton Sides
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
‐‐ Isabel Allende
Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
‐‐ Bennie Thompson
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
‐‐ James Reston
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
‐‐ James Gray
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
‐‐ Eric Alterman
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
‐‐ Vernon A. Walters
Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
‐‐ Evan Bayh
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
‐‐ Cecil Beaton
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
‐‐ John M. McHugh
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
‐‐ John Updike
Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
‐‐ Patrick J. Kennedy
Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It's a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.
‐‐ Joni Ernst
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
‐‐ Howard Zinn
Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle
Americans have discovered fear.
‐‐ Jose Saramago
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
‐‐ Jose Saramago
Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.
‐‐ Scott Turow
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.
‐‐ Thomas Frank
Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.
‐‐ John Katzman
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
‐‐ Frank Rich
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
‐‐ Barbara Boxer
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
‐‐ Samantha Power
Americans have much less holiday, so for them, four or five days away is like a mini vacation, but for us, it's just a long weekend. In Europe, one takes time off more casually.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
‐‐ Howard Fast
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
‐‐ Gary Bauer
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
‐‐ James Madison
Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
‐‐ Ted Nugent
Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
‐‐ Estelle
Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.
‐‐ James Lankford
Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
‐‐ Adam Kinzinger
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
‐‐ Julie Taymor
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust
Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.
‐‐ Martin Heinrich