American people Quote by Rudyard Kipling

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New…

— Lajos Kossuth

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,

— Alec Baldwin

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious…

— John Steinbeck

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it…

— John Updike

For too long New Yorkers have strained to find a leader who represents us, who puts us first. And we have been betrayed time…

— Zohran Mamdani

I think anyone who comes to New York is probably coming into a situation with more attention than they had previously.

— Daniel Jones

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds…

— Brian Cox

To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we…

— Colson Whitehead

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd…

— Wallace Stevens

That's what New York is all about, pulling together.

— Joey Heatherton

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

— Lee Ryan