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title: "3 Ask Americans Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Ask Americans quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Ask Americans sayings and thoughts."
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> [Everybody should have health care, on the one hand. But on the other hand, if you ask Americans, "Are you willing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uwe-reinhardt/everybody-should-have-health-care-on-the-one-hand-but-on-the-other/)

[Uwe Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uwe-reinhardt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/uwe-reinhardt-29878_americans_everybody-should-have-health-care-on-the_517565.jpg)

> [Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-rich/feckless-as-it-was-for-bush-to-ask-americans-to-go-shopping-after-9/)

[Frank Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-rich/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/frank-rich-14674_after_feckless-as-it-was-for-bush-to-ask-ameri_613785.png)

> [If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bashar-al-assad/if-you-ask-americans-whether-they-ve-been-successful-at-sealing-the/)

[Bashar al-Assad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bashar-al-assad/)

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