What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world…

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

— Paul Fussell

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

— Stephanie Ruhle

The elite cannot understand why President Trump is liked by so many Americans, nor why people flock to his rallies. Yet, it's in part…

— Trish Regan

I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling…

— Debra Granik

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to…

— Mitch Daniels

I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real…

— Jane Jacobs

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“Yet the old faith in the power of Bryce's "amazing solvent" to fulfill Washington's conception of Americans as "one people" held fast. However much…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

— E. V. Lucas

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries…

— Don DeLillo

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of…

— Stephen Kinzer

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to…

— Chelsea Clinton

As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices…

— Ruby Bridges

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

— Henry Cisneros