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Americans Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.…
- West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their…
- Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign…
- People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger…
- I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
- My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
- No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
- The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits…
- We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
- Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the…
- Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
More Americans Quotes
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously… — Russell Baker
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that… — James A. Baldwin
- As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. — Antonio Banderas
- Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
- I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to… — Roseanne Barr