All Quotes

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Americans just don't understand dry wit.
‐‐ John Oliver

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
‐‐ Marcus Buckingham

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
‐‐ Pete Sessions

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

Americans like fat books and thin women.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
‐‐ John Carney

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
‐‐ Nick Park

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
‐‐ Northrop Frye

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
‐‐ Eric Idle

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
‐‐ Lisa Snowdon

Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
‐‐ George S. Patton

Americans love to read about violence.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
‐‐ Herman Cain

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
‐‐ Gouverneur Morris

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

Americans never quit.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
‐‐ Bill Owens

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
‐‐ Bill Gross

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
‐‐ Bill Nelson

Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
‐‐ Elijah Cummings

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
‐‐ Alan Dundes

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
‐‐ Neil Sheehan

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
‐‐ John Prendergast

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
‐‐ George S. Patton

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.
‐‐ Megan Smith

Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
‐‐ Russ Carnahan