Americans Quotes · Page 29

Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.

— Jemele Hill

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

— George Allen

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have…

— Nat Hentoff

The need to upgrade our physical infrastructure is something most Americans can agree on.

— Phil Scott

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next…

— Luis Fortuno

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who…

— Dalia Mogahed

“The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

— Greg Proops

Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and…

— Bear Grylls

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts.…

— Alison Lurie

“Sure, the Americans want to joke about sacrifice, but then they want to go back to their hotels and sip fancy drinks…

— Sydney Salter

Americans for Job Security is a corporate front group. It has spent millions on behalf of campaigns to repeal the estate tax…

— Neera Tanden

What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise…

— Clarence Francis

“Daily mass killings are a uniquely American problem, because in America every halfwit can get his hands on a gun. You know…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

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

“Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy.”

— Hugh Laurie

Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

I've been invited to a Halloween party tonight in America. To scare all the Yanks, I'm going as low-fat food!

— Anonymous

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for…

— Joe Sestak

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that…

— George Ball

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

— Agnes Varda

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

— Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Let's talk about national security. That's what's keeping most Americans up at night.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

— Donald Trump

The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make.

— Charles Murray

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

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

— T. Rafael Cimino

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

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

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