Americans Quotes · Page 24

Sorry, Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someones getting hurt.

— Louis CK

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

— Edith Wharton

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

— Chinua Achebe

“You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.”

— Alan Brown

“If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get…

— Ben Carson

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race…

— Ralph Steadman

Americans are being attacked nationwide because of their party affiliation and political ideology.

— Vernon Jones

When looking for an Oscar-winning performance Americans demand not mental instability but mental disability, ie Tom Hanks playing a simpleton or Dustin…

— Harry Enfield

I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never…

— Henry Rollins

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not…

— Will Durant

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to…

— Eric Alterman

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind…

— Al Gore

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so…

— Tim Walberg

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build…

— Will Rogers

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

— Donald Trump, Jr

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but…

— Lou Reed

All Hoosiers, all Americans, myself included, should never go broke in this country because you get sick or have a bad accident.

— Mike Braun

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in…

— Henry Rollins

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're…

— Derek Walcott

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

— Stephen Harper

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

— Henry Rollins

Don't believe anyone who says, "I alone can fix it." Americans don't say, "I alone can fix it." We say, "We'll fix…

— Hillary Clinton

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

— Dan Quayle

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It…

— Ricky Gervais

“Americans are much more resolute in their identification with party than they are in their identification with ideology.”

— Christopher H. Achen

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

— Bob Hope

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you…

— Mick Jagger

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

— Gladys Taber

“When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?”

— Trevor D. Richardson

I love how Americans are like, 'I'm just going to get up and move!' That's not how the world works. You don't…

— Bob the Drag Queen

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

— James A. Baldwin

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

— James Taranto

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded.

— Ichiro Ozawa

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is…

— Deepak Chopra

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to…

— Craig Ferguson

Americans spend a lot more money on their cars, especially the older gentlemen who see it as their pride and joy.

— Edd China

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

— Barack Obama