Americans Quotes · Page 14

“Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans need government to get out of the way; they'll do the rest.

— John E. James

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

— Aasif Mandvi

Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."

— Eric Drooker

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

— Susana Martinez

Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs...

— Gary Johnson

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

— John Cleese

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

— Hani Furstenberg

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

— Ryan Holiday

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

— Steve Scalise

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

— Barack Obama

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

— Richard Bach

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

— Howard Dean

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or…

— Mary McGrory

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they…

— Liam Gallagher

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university…

— Paul Fussell

Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you…

— Jamie Ford

I think Americans today look at the moon and think of it like apple pie or Coca-Cola. It's American. We planted our…

— Lily Koppel

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to…

— Cynthia McKinney

Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States' economic and social fabric. Because…

— Henry Paulson

I hate politics. It often seems like an exercise in futility and I'd like to say screw it and let it be…

— Rock Cowles

I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see,…

— Maz Jobrani

I like the freedom America has. In Japan people tend to think too much about others' opinions and how to be like…

— Yui Mizuno

“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's…

— Robert Baer

“Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all…

— Niall Ferguson

“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of…

— Emma Goldman

“Like more than one Englishman in New York, he looked upon Americans as hopeless children whom Providence had perversely provided with this…

— Tom Wolfe

I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed…

— William Monahan

most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those…

— Barbara Deming

“Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the Leviathan , their navigation…

— Scott Westerfeld

“We Americans” is a fabrication of the rulers. There are the tens and tens and tens of millions of workers and farmers…

— Jack Barnes

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

— Michael Franti

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

— Ashton Kutcher

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

— Joe Sestak

Americans will put up with anything, provided that It doesn't block traffic

— Toni Watson

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

— Vicki Robin

Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

— Nancy Pelosi

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

— Edward Dahlberg