Backgrounds Quote by Condoleezza Rice

You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all. And you're…

— Condoleezza Rice

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their…

— Steve Cosson

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

— Margaret Mead

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

— Joe Sestak

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got…

— Robert Webb

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

— George Packer

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and…

— Ann Romney

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But…

— Tan France

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

— Kate Beckinsale

Being religious is quintessentially American.

— Denis McDonough