Age Quote by J. Paul Getty

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11…

— Jane Fonda

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly…

— Joan Didion

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

American prides itself on being centrist, on not having the European tendency of flirting with extremist groups.

— Katty Kay

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion…

— Elliott Abrams

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should…

— Frederick Douglass

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily…

— Lawrence Osborne

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners,…

— Harry Browne