Americans Quotes · Page 26

Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a…

— Alex Azar

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

— Michel Houellebecq

Most Americans never work as hard as when they're trying to appear normal, and in New Orleans, we just don't bother with…

— Harry Shearer

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a…

— Rosanna Arquette

Americans are very much 'Win! Win! Win!' In England, we don't give a fig whether you win. It's great if you do,…

— Eddie the Eagle

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

— Zhou Enlai

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

— Joel Salatin

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

— Jess Row

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are…

— Nobuo Uematsu

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.…

— Julius Evola

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

“Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an…

— Frederick Turner

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles…

— Joe Baca

Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that…

— Oliver Benjamin

I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are…

— Christopher Titus

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk…

— Anonymous

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is…

— John Shadegg

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

— Florence King

“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.

— Jim Norton

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at…

— Neil Sheehan

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

— Brianna Keilar

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

— Chuck Todd

The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.

— Richard Burr

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

— Trey Parker

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

— Robert Orben

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

— Robert Nelson

The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.

— Kevin Mitnick

“We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last…

— Neil Postman

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

— W Averell Harriman

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

— Herbert Hoover

Americans girls always ask me where I get my clothes, and I say, 'Ha, you can't get this over here.'

— Louise Linton

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

— Cullen Hightower

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in…

— Joe Lando

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

— George Packer

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban,…

— Jon Katz

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in…

— Walker Percy