Quotes About Americans

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

If I don't write it, no one will ever understand the indomitable courage under fire of those three Americans. And that would be the biggest tragedy of all.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

It was said in the First World War that the French fought for their country, the British fought for freedom of the seas, and the Americans fought for souvenirs.

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

The average Americans day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charless dart board.

Smith, for example, claimed that if Americans defended slavery on the basis of the Old Testament, they should also defend practices like polygamy and the complete annihilation of defeated armies that are also prescribed in the Old Testament

If you think about it, a president blowing off the Correspondents' Association dinner might be a political boon in this anti-Washington day and age, a nod to the "average Americans.

The American people are broadly opposed to these immigration policies. According to The Pew Research Center, 69 percent of Americans want to restrict and control immigration rates—72 percent of whites, 66 percent of blacks, and 59 percent of Hispanics.67 Gallup reports that by two to one, Americans want immigration levels reduced68; and Reuters found that by nearly three to one, Americans want immigration levels reduced.69

The number of unemployed citizens "without a high school diploma increased by 18.7 percent while the number of unemployed foreign-born persons decreased by 24.8 percent."37 Despite the supposed economic recovery "following the Great Recession, employers continued to favor illegal alien labor despite millions of less-educated Americans who were unemployed.

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.