Americans Quotes · Page 32

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

— Mike Huckabee

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

— Henry Rollins

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus…

— James Purdy

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

— Michael Wilbon

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid,…

— Andrew Zimmern

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

— Ralph Nader

“He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us…

— Bianca Jagger

“The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the…

— Theodore H. White

The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing.…

— Colin Wilson

In England, gossiping is not as commonplace or even celebrated as much as it is in Latino culture. But it is not…

— Perez Hilton

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing…

— Tom Tancredo

“Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like "yoga" or "karma", it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture…

— Debra Ollivier

“We cannot know anything about the blessings and privileges we have as Americans, without becoming acquainted with the condition of other nations,…

— John Taylor

As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it…

— John McCain

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one…

— Anatoly Karpov

“For most Americans, money and calories are always on their minds, although they burn too much of one, and not enough of…

— Jarod Kintz

I think Americans are always going to care more about Americans than about Mexicans.

— Paul Bloom

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of…

— Elizabeth Warren

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be…

— Richard M. Nixon

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

— Barbara Boxer

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

— Barack Obama

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

— Marilyn Horne

I make a pretty good living compared to most Americans, but I don't hang out with a lot of people who aren't…

— Everlast

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

— William S. Burroughs

“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”

— Gore Vidal

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

— Susan Rice

“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the…

— Aberjhani

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

— Milana Vayntrub

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10…

— Ann Coulter

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

— Barack Obama

“Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am…

— Orson Scott Card

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or…

— David Bowie

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death…

— Joe Klein

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you…

— Mick Jagger

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

— Gladys Taber

“When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?”

— Trevor D. Richardson

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

— Bob Hope