Changed Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world…

— Jane Jacobs

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

— Rush Limbaugh

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make…

— Noam Chomsky

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

— Mason Cooley

“Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own…

— Monica Hesse

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

— William Feather

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

— Rick Perry

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

— George Pataki

“There was something particularly American about it--blaming yourself for bad luck--that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to…

— Philipp Meyer

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

— A. E. Housman

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

— Yu Darvish