All Quotes

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
‐‐ Chester Himes

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
‐‐ Jack Germond

American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.
‐‐ George Packer

American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.
‐‐ Eileen Ford

American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.
‐‐ Michael Kors

American workers are first rate.
‐‐ Christopher Dodd

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
‐‐ Andy Stern

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
‐‐ Bryan Burrough

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
‐‐ John Oates

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.
‐‐ Daniel Inouye

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
‐‐ George Packer

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
‐‐ Freddie Stroma

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
‐‐ Joe Lando

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
‐‐ Henry Cisneros

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
‐‐ Sue Johanson

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
‐‐ Emily Blunt

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
‐‐ Andrei Codrescu

Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.
‐‐ Russ Carnahan

Americans are always a little bit insecure.
‐‐ Michael Kors

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
‐‐ Adele

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
‐‐ Stephen King

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
‐‐ Nguyen Cao Ky

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
‐‐ Adam Schiff

Americans are calling for a return to common sense in how we solve problems and how the people communicate with their government.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.
‐‐ Paul Tonko

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
‐‐ Robert Kagan