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Quotes About Americans

Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.
~ Lynsey Addario
When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.
~ Wayne Messam
We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.
~ Ro Khanna
Albanians don't get dyslexia. It's a disease Americans invented so they won't have to admit their kids are retarded.
~ Francine Prose
Los norteamericanos a pesar de ser propicios e incluso de querer ser siervos, siempre se negaron a ser vistos como campesinos.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
~ Frank Zappa
After a long nap, the Americans spent the rest of the afternoon watching preparations for the fiesta. They helped set up large wooden tables on the patio. Bananas, oranges, limes, and avocados were heaped on some of the tables. Food that was cooking gave off tantalizing odors. "This will be a gastronomic adventure!" Chet exclaimed as he viewed the preparations hungrily.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
~ E. O. Wilson
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.
~ Nicolas Cage
Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.
~ Pete Buttigieg
Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.
~ Jan Schakowsky
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.
~ Bill Keller
Democrats are so enraged by President Trump that they have shown their willingness to undo the votes of 63 million Americans.
~ Trish Regan
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
~ Robert W. Welch, Jr.
There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?
~ Hugo Chavez
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which controls Congress.
~ Margaret Hoover
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
~ Gail Collins
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
~ Ted Cruz
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
~ Ian Fleming
You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
~ S. C. Gwynne
I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
~ Eddie Murphy
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
~ Ted Deutch