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Quotes About Americans

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
~ Mitt Romney
The government is keeping detailed records on how many Americans have carports. How many Americans have mold in their bathroom.
~ Ann Coulter
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans.
~ Alex Padilla
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
~ Walter Kirn
As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.
~ Paul Tonko
No one who works a full-time job should live in poverty. It's that simple. We must stand on the side of hard-working Americans.
~ Alex Padilla
The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.
~ Donald Trump, Jr.
The expectations some Americans put on me is too much, is what I would say. But I don't take it that way. I know no one means harm to me like that or wanting to put too much pressure on me.
~ Christian Pulisic
That's one thing about Americans: They know how to have fun.
~ Kristaps Porzingis
What Americans want is more affordable health care.
~ Susan Collins
In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.
~ Cal Cunningham
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
~ Osama bin Laden
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.
~ Anthony Kennedy
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.
~ Orson Bean
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
~ John Updike
She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in americans it expresses itself b disembodiedness, in literature and machinery, in Spain by ritual so abstract that it does not connect itself with anything but ritual.
~ Gertrude Stein
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
~ Gertrude Stein
Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.
~ Marco Rubio
We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.
~ Debbie Stabenow
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
~ Ron Wyden
I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
~ Ennio Morricone
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
~ James P. Hoffa
I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
~ Barack Obama
The TECH Careers Act will open the door for more Americans to have successful middle-class careers and help small businesses in Connecticut and across the country access a qualified pool of talented workers.
~ Elizabeth Esty