Americans Quotes · Page 28

And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country has done for you. Ask what you have done for your country.

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe if given the choice, Americans will choose to support American farmers when they head to the store to shop.

— Jeff Van Drew

I think most Americans don't agree with the idea that the best qualified person should not get the job.

— David Duke

I think Americans are looking for like a human element in their politicians. And they all understand, look, they've got kids who…

— Margaret Hoover

There are jobs Americans arent doing. ... If youve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you…

— George W. Bush

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

— Happy Chandler

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate…

— Howard Zinn

May this be the year people stop mistaking your most talented citizens for Americans.

— Anonymous

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't…

— Robert K. Massie

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get…

— Gertrude Atherton

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light…

— Jim Rohn

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional…

— Rick Perry

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so…

— William Saroyan

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits…

— Hayley Atwell

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not…

— Antonin Dvorak

Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately…

— Roseanne Barr

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to…

— Lamar Alexander

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And…

— Will Ferguson

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

— Lee Harvey Oswald

“It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

Americans in general, I think, don't understand the weight and gravity of foreign policy and how to engage the world at large.

— George P. Bush

America should lead on science and technology and Americans should win the race on the kinds of discoveries that unleash new jobs.

— Barack Obama

Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced!

— Donald Trump

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

— Woodrow Wilson

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

— Paul Hogan

The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years.

— Douglas Henshall

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

— Mehmet Oz

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

— Malcolm Turnbull

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

— Lee Zeldin

You have to work across the aisle. Americans have had enough of the gridlock in Washington.

— Kathy Szeliga

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

— Rick Perry

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in…

— Jay Garner

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those…

— Kamala Harris

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they…

— Gertrude Stein

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then…

— Burna Boy

“Americans flip flopping between Republicans and Democrats may eventually destroy the USA and possibly the world.”

— Steven Magee

I think Brits are more confident probably, and don't rely on self help in the way a lot of Americans do. But…

— Dawn O'Porter

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

— Utada Hikaru

For my family and my neighbors, America stood for something real, something tangible. America, and therefore Americans, stood for freedom, family, truth…

— Amy McGrath