Americans Quotes · Page 28

“Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation; so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.”

— Patrick Mendis

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

— Bob Beauprez

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

— Maureen Dowd

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

— Yogi Berra

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

— Ellen Willis

NASA stands for 'No Access to Space for Americans' - that's what it stands for to me and to most Americans.

— Robert Bigelow

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

— Michelle Steel

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what…

— Jim Jordan

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful.…

— Vinnie Jones

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

— Gertrude Stein

We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have…

— Ronald Reagan

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect…

— Aziz Ansari

There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about…

— Barack Obama

In the UK, everything is a bit older and a bit more worn-out, and the people are a bit more tired. You…

— Ida Maria

Russians in top positions always told me, 'We don't want to deal with our allies the way that the Americans dealt with…

— Ehud Barak

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

— Hermann Goring

“Why are so many Americans for male circumcision but against female circumcision? Both are equally cruel and barbaric traditions.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably,…

— Paul Robeson

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

— Lisa Snowdon

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something…

— Pauline Kael

I think Americans, as a nation and culture, once something is recognized for a week or two, people kind of forget about.

— Jordan Burroughs

I feel like a lot of frustration from Americans comes from when they don't feel like they're being represented in politics.

— Madison Cawthorn

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

— Anonymous

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

— May Agnes Fleming

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that…

— Stephen King

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

— Billy Joel

“Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.”

— Max Brooks

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

— Dean Koontz

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

— James Dobson

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!

— Nguyen Van Thieu

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

— E. V. Lucas

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever…

— Margaret Mead

Newsflash: Americans don't want to watch athletes who hate America representing America.

— Miranda Devine

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West…

— Cathy Davidson

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of…

— Sarah Vowell