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Quotes About Americans

Fast track is about pushing through the TPP, TTIP and future trade agreements that would massively increase the power of big international corporations and affect the daily lives of Americans.
~ Jan Schakowsky
The health of Americans must no longer be a commodity to be traded, bought, or sold for profit by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. We must promote medical and Medicaid home models to provide comprehensive care for body, mind, and spirit.
~ Deb Haaland
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
~ Alcee Hastings
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
~ Christa McAuliffe
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
~ George Will
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.
~ Emmett Tyrrell
We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
~ Henry Rollins
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
~ Russell Baker
No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
~ Terry Pratchett
We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.
~ George W. Bush
If Trump doesn't respect all Americans, how can we trust him to serve all Americans?
~ Hillary Clinton
According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves.
~ Jimmy Fallon
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
~ Sydney Schanberg
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
~ Madeleine Albright
And Americans, individually, are of all people the most anxious to please. That they talk overmuch is often taken as a sign of self-satisfaction. It is merely a mannerism. Rhetoric is a thing inbred in them. They are quite unconscious of it.
~ Max Beerbohm
They were obviously Americans, I could hear their voices as the party wandered around our tomb; to judge by the voices, they might have been stenographers from Cleveland. "Oh, isn't it lovely?" "Oh, is this the Campagna?" "Oh, how lovely it is here!
~ Max Frisch
If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance. It need not be so. We have the brains and the heart to face our futures bravely. Taking responsibility for the time we take up and the space we occupy. To respect our ancestors and out of concern for our descendants, we must show ourselves as courteous and courageous well-meaning Americans. Now.
~ Maya Angelou
Over the course of time many Americans have forgotten that "we the people" are actually at the top of the food chain as far as authority is concerned in this nation. The Republicans don't run our nation. The Democrats don't run our nation. We do. However, by dividing and engaging in political squabbles, we have allowed the government to grow so large and powerful that it has now become the boss, progressively taking charge of all of our lives.
~ Ben Carson
The real question is, will we as Americans, accustomed to freedom, continue to sheepishly submit to the purveyors of political correctness without recognizing its erosive effects on our freedom?
~ Ben Carson
The founders also knew that every government system risks corruption, and they wanted to make sure Americans would be able to defend themselves should the nation's leaders become tyrannical. To that end, they ratified the Second Amendment, guaranteeing the right of Americans to bear arms. An armed populace is a powerful deterrent to tyrants both domestically and internationally, and we must defend this liberty as part of our common defense.
~ Ben Carson
I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.
~ Hugh Shelton