All Quotes

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
‐‐ Paul Fussell

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
‐‐ Gary Locke

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.
‐‐ Dario Argento

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.
‐‐ Alexander Rossi

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
‐‐ Hanoi Hannah

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.
‐‐ Cory Booker

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
‐‐ John Lydon

Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
‐‐ John le Carre

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
‐‐ Jacob Hacker

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
‐‐ Marilyn Horne

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
‐‐ Ernest Dimnet

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.
‐‐ John B. Larson

Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
‐‐ John Cornyn

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
‐‐ Alan Dundes

Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
‐‐ Alice Waters

Americans don't like European movies.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
‐‐ Larry McMurtry

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney