Quotes About Americans

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them.

I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.

From the very beginning, Americans have refused to tolerate unchecked power. We must now press our legislators to protect us from the unchecked power of dominant digital platforms.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

If these men wished to influence ideas and public policies, why the secrecy? Isn't that what people do in a democracy? In a 1997 speech, Charles Koch provided an answer: "We are greatly outnumbered." Meaning, most Americans don't want what they want. Democracy can't work for them.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some forty million Americans, nearly one in seven of us, are suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder at any given time, accounting for 31 percent of the expenditures on mental health care in the United States.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again.

Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Ninety thousand die of that infection. The

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these values, the adoption of these unprecedented goals for marriage had unanticipated and revolutionary consequences that have since come to threaten the stability of the entire institution.

Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected

The Americans, he laughed drunkenly. They build more cars than anybody in the world, and take them out and dump them in terrible traffic jams. The only thing crazier than the Americans were the Russians, who never had traffic jams because they didn't have cars.