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Quotes About Americans

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
~ Bob Greene
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
~ Bobby Jindal
I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
~ Pam Bondi
Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'
~ John Boehner
I know Kamala will be a capable, courageous leader for all Americans.
~ Mike Espy
The world may view India more benignly, but it does more business with China. It courts China; it needs China. Look at the genuflecting Europeans and the fork-tongued Americans!
~ Sanjaya Baru
In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
The best critics of America are Americans.
~ William Klein
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
~ Jerry Lewis
Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the arts than Americans.
~ Chris de Burgh
A number of states are starting to strengthen their anti-abortion laws because the more we learn of abortion tactics the harder it is for Americans to support these inhumane procedures.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
~ Christopher Darden
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
~ Jules Verne
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
~ Max Beerbohm
I am inspired by the diversity of the entrepreneurs that come into 'Shark Tank' and the ability of the show to reach all Americans.
~ Troy Carter
You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
~ Tom Vilsack
The pre-Sixties reformist Left, insofar as it concerned itself with oppressed minorities, did so by proclaiming that all of us –– black, white, and brown –– are Americans, and that we should respect one another as such.
~ Richard M. Rorty
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)
~ Richard Milhous Nixon
In that August of 1957, however, the cloakroom was often crowded, with senators talking earnestly on sofas and standing in animated little groups, and sometimes the glances between various groups were not comradely at all—sometimes, in fact, they glinted with a barely concealed hostility, and the narrow room simmered with tension, for the main issue before the Senate that summer was civil rights, a proposed law intended to make voting easier for millions of black Americans
~ Robert A. Caro
stupidity, and self-seeking, he resembles his fellow Americans but is a notch or two above average. Then look at the man who will replace him if his government topples.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
~ Kent Hughes
Regie Gibson said, "Our problem as Americans is we actually hate history. . . . What we love is nostalgia. We love to remember things exactly the way they didn't happen. History itself is often an indictment. And people? We hate to be indicted.
~ Kermit Roosevelt III
The English are quite mad, from the lowest to the highest, but I think they will conquer the world for they are the only folk (excepting the brash Americans who do not count) who know that they are right in all things
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.
~ Jacob Hashimoto