Assuming Quote by Michael Dorris

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

— Madeleine Albright

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat…

— Jerry Brown

Americans are once again looking outward

— Dan Rather

While we may have very different ideas and core philosophies, at the end of the day, we are all Americans. We do well to…

— Mike Johnson

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

— Saul Bellow

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead…

— Jürgen Moltmann

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

— Michael Ondaatje

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

We may hold different views than the person beside us. But as Americans, we all share the same proud title: We are citizens.

— Barack Obama

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

— Lewis Black

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're…

— Nikki Reed

“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