Difficult Quote by Joan Didion

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local…

— Angus Deaton

Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.

— Katty Kay

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

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We…

— Bryan Cranston

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

— Robert Wolders

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

— Carl Andre

Americans are defined by a history of immigration in pursuit of freedom and opportunity. We are more individualistic, enterprising, and protective of liberties that…

— Jacob Weisberg

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp