Americans Quotes · Page 23

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

— Hilary Rosen

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

— Chris Matthews

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"

— Senator John Kerry

“Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.”

— Anne Holm

Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.

— Ted Rall

I believe people want a President for all Americans. And so I'm out there talking about what we can do for every…

— Julian Castro

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

Americans of all political backgrounds must work together to safeguard our democracy and those of our allies.

— Tom Suozzi

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration…

— Paul Begala

The degree to which Americans talk about themselves as a special, unique country has often struck me as a little grandiose. You…

— Katty Kay

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We…

— Alice Waters

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're…

— Hillary Clinton

There are two worlds here in the U.S., especially here in Los Angeles. All the Latinos have watched my shows for 30…

— Eugenio Derbez

There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy…

— Neko Case

Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite…

— Chris Hayes

I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for…

— Greg Proops

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

— Deval Patrick

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

— Albert Ayler

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

— Michael Moore

Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand,…

— Gin Wigmore

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.

— Joseph Boyden

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

— Dean Acheson

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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

— Paul William Roberts

Religious liberty is a natural right and a highly sensitive issue for Americans, many of whose forefathers frequently came to the country…

— Mollie Hemingway

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

— Charles Lindbergh

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

— Oscar Wilde

You are what you dream you are and become. And, I wish Americans would get out of the sickness and just become…

— Matt Drudge

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”

— Winston Churchill

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people.

— T. Rafael Cimino

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been…

— Malcolm X

The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten…

— Mark Potok

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around…

— Joy Reid

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.

— Otto Friedrich

I really think that Americans can solve the problems that we have very easily, together, once we remove the corruption from our…

— Anonymous

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

— Thomas Gage

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on…

— Martin Heinrich

Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.

— Ian Shoales

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade…

— Hamza Yusuf

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard