the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

— Michael Moore

“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York at that…

— Nancy MacLean

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in…

— Mort Kondracke

Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the…

— Nancy MacLean

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

— Dan Rather

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

— Barack Obama

When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're…

— Gad Elmaleh

My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

— Himanshu Suri

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food.…

— Jamie Oliver

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…

— Gertrude Stein

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

— Hilary Rosen

“People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.”

— Paul William Roberts