All Quotes

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
‐‐ David Horsey

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
‐‐ Jacques Maritain

Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey - it's unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.
‐‐ Mike Turner

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.
‐‐ Kendrick Meek

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
‐‐ Anne Perry

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
‐‐ Jim Ramstad

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
‐‐ Jennifer Dunn

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
‐‐ Josephine Baker

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.
‐‐ Joseph Pilates

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
‐‐ Yakov Smirnoff

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
‐‐ Dean Kamen

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
‐‐ Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.
‐‐ Robert Hormats

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
‐‐ Susan Rice

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
‐‐ Keith Ellison

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
‐‐ Fred Upton

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
‐‐ Rick Perry

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.
‐‐ Liam Gallagher

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
‐‐ Christine O'Donnell

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.
‐‐ John B. Larson

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
‐‐ John Olver

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.
‐‐ David Warner

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
‐‐ Morton Hunt