All Quotes

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
‐‐ Tom Bodett

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
‐‐ Tim Walberg

Americans are hidden dragons to me.
‐‐ Ang Lee

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.
‐‐ Susan Rice

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

Americans are in need of an all-of-the-above energy approach, and when you think about all-of-the-above, you think about wind, solar, hydrogen, think about all those groovy technologies I really like.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.
‐‐ Richard Kerry

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
‐‐ Diane Lane

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
‐‐ Robert Nelson

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
‐‐ Patricia Riggen

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

Americans are not afraid of the future.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
‐‐ Tammy Baldwin

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
‐‐ Mira Nair

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.
‐‐ Lily Koppel

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
‐‐ E. V. Lucas

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
‐‐ Herb Caen

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

Americans are proud of this country. They want to see things get better, and they want to be part of that turnaround. That's what America Speaking Out is all about.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
‐‐ Kate Moss

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
‐‐ Chris Cannon

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
‐‐ George W. Bush

Americans are shy about the body.
‐‐ Ana Beatriz Barros

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.
‐‐ Henry Waxman

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.
‐‐ Jamelia

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
‐‐ Ruhollah Khomeini

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman