Americans Quotes · Page 12

I believe in America. I believe in Americans.

— Lucy McBath

Cancun - the locals were fantastic, but it was full of the worst kind of Americans.

— Lee Mack

My husband and I, we are not Democrat or Republican first. We are Americans first.

— Amy McGrath

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

— Maureen Dowd

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

— Herb Caen

Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.

— Terry Pratchett

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

— Joe Miller

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

— Ted Cruz

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

— Gore Vidal

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

— John Lewis

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the…

— Jerry Brown

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for…

— Mark Shields

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

— Jennifer Egan

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

— Barack Obama

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

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

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

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy…

— Nick Clooney

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

— Paul Begala

“We are all immigrants, a glorious confection of races and beliefs, united by the rock that we live on. As the years…

— Alex George

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

— Katty Kay

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part…

— Barack Obama

“Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total…

— Helen MacInnes

“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,…

— Michael Pollan

“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything…

— Ryū Murakami

“Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“We Americans” is a fabrication of the rulers. There are the tens and tens and tens of millions of workers and farmers…

— Jack Barnes

“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks wildflowers near the river and brings them to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him. In…

— Hans Ostrom

“I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants.…

— William S. Burroughs

“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and…

— Benjamin Harrison

“Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.”

— Ellen Ruppel Shell

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

— Michael Kinsley

We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

Americans, unknowingly, live part of every day in the house that Satch built.

— Leonard Feather

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

— Andrew Dominik

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

— Alain Prost

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

— Kellyanne Conway

“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.”

— Stephen Baxter