Quotes About Americans

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

Most Americans want health insurance.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara's Bush! From 'Walk On By II

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.