Americans Quotes · Page 8

It's hard to get Americans to vote.

— Benny the Butcher

Americans are once again looking outward

— Dan Rather

“Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart…”

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Patti Smith

“They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,”

— Anonymous

Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now.

— Donald Trump

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

— Ana Beatriz Barros

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Andrew Jackson

My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.

— William Klein

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

— Brittany Maynard

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

— Walter E. Williams

Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a…

— Alex Azar

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with…

— Harry Shearer

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

— Michel Houellebecq

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

— George Carlin

“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”

— Edith Wharton

All of us, as humans, as Americans, as people who are lucky enough to be a part of this country's ideals, should…

— Stephanie Ruhle

Jewish Americans have a long and proud history in Georgia and in the United States. Their story is inherently American - it…

— Lucy McBath

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as…

— Harold Rosenberg

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of…

— Patty Hearst

“Americans, too belong to a class—one responsible for and intrinsically tied to a history of torture, bombings, and coups d’état carried out…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security…

— Russ Feingold

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to…

— Mark Takano

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where…

— Eric Ries

People used to say if you really want to crack it you have really got to go to America. But with the…

— Kano

“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and…

— George Saunders

“    Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't…

— John Fante

“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?"…

— Saul D. Alinsky

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.…

— Marine Le Pen

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one…

— Henry Rollins

“Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: 'But when the forbidden…

— Osama bin Laden

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering…

— David Walker

The Americans are very effective and action-driven.

— Delphine Arnault

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

— Colter Wall

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.

— Paul Ryan

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

— Sydney J. Harris

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

— Muhammad Ali

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

— Maz Jobrani