American Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the…

— Ishmael Reed

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

— Linda Colley

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

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

— Federica Mogherini

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

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

— Robert Wolders

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

— Isabelle Huppert

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

— Tony Blair

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

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

— Carl Andre

There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naïve Americans and Europeans.…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

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

— Katty Kay