Americans, unlike their elected politicians, are not stupid.

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

— Paul William Roberts

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

— Hilary Rosen

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Dan Rather

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

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

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 our fathers…

— David Walker

So many Korean Americans like me came to this country with the hope of achieving their own American Dream.

— Michelle Steel

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

— Paul Tsongas