Academic Quote by Peter Bergen

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal…

— Lee H. Hamilton

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

— Joni Eareckson Tada

“Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of feeling has…

— Terry Eagleton

The best critics of America are Americans.

— William Klein

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

— Rob Sheffield

Americans are losing faith in this country's ability to work for them.

— Cory Booker

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that,…

— Larry McMurtry

Americans are right to wonder if, at long last, what George Washington called the Great Experiment has failed, and that our founders have lost…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

— John Maynard Keynes

An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

— John Phillips