Quotes About Americans

HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.

The problem is that this fluidity is not a choice we are free to make. Despite the unifying patriotic rhetoric that permeates the United States, on some level Americans are not really fooled: at bottom, each person knows he or she must continually "reinvent themselves," which is to say, go it alone. America is the ultimate anticommunity.3

The war in Ukraine makes Americans and Westerners look almost like angels when it comes to invading other nations.

How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people? Twenty-first-century Americans need to confront this enduring conundrum. Let us recognize the existence of our underclass.

Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.

Southern politicians shortchanged rural Americans in another crucial way: they made sure that the New Deal's signature Social Security program excluded farm laborers.

In a book called Why Americans Hate Politics, E. J. Dionne says, "Americans hate politics as it is now practiced because we have lost all sense of the public good."4 Without the conviction that there exists an objective good, public debate disintegrates into a cacophony of warring voices.

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. —Will Rogers

The result of all this is that Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for the control of wanton information, the courts stand as a final arbiter of truth. For how long, no one knows. I

Cheating means something though," she said. "Americans are obsessed with it." "Americans in particular?" "I think they worry about it more—so it happens more.

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

Do you men still know how to fight?" he (GW) roared. A primal cry erupted around him. "Then fall in and show those redcoats over there" — he pointed back to the advancing British — "how Americans can stand and fight for their freedom!

the reporters wondered whether Assange would endanger Afghans who had helped the Americans if he put their names online. 'Well, they're informants,' he replied. 'So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it.

Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you; We'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any Muslim.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.