American people Quote by Barack Obama

“We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices… Government has to make those choices for people.”

— Anonymous

“In American life, democracy and capitalism, despite their advantages, tend to erode the place of traditional authorities (families, religious faith, and other institutions), while…

— Charles J. Chaput

“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while others can…

— Nancy Isenberg

“Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as…

— Scott L. Vanatter

“At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.”

— Bernard Lewis

“People everywhere, including the United States, are still prone to accept stereotypes, eager to believe what we want to believe (for example, on global…

— Madeleine Albright

“Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea--of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit…

— Mark Steyn

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is…

— John F. Kennedy

“In our foreign policy as in our own national life we need less fanfare, less stagecraft and circumventing. We need to talk sense, to…

— David McCullough

“On the contrary, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope…

— James Baldwin