Quotes About Americans

At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

The Export-Import Bank's long legacy of crony capitalism has hurt the livelihoods and businesses of many Americans who don't get special treatment from this misguided government program.

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

Austin confided as much in his private correspondence. "Strangers to each other," he wrote, "to me, and to the laws and languages of the country, they come here with all the ideas of americans and expect to see and understand the laws they are governed by, and many very many of them have all the licentiousness and wild turbulence of frontiersmen.

The main reason Americans buy guns is to tell themselves the story of the failure of government.

Americans and their orthodontistry, honestly, you'd think the right to a brilliant smile was enshrined in the constitution.

The war had lasted three years; only 883 Americans died in battle, 3,349 more of disease. Of the 1 million dead Filipinos (out of a population of 6 million), 16,000 were guerrillas, 984,000 civilians.

Secular-minded royalist Afghans from the country's thin, exiled tribal leadership and commercial classes said they had long warned both the Americans and the Saudis, as one put it, "For God's sake, you're financing your own assassins." But the Americans had been convinced by Pakistani intelligence, they complained, that only the most radical Islamists could fight with determination.

September 11 made plain how the security of ordinary Afghans was connected to the security of ordinary Americans and Europeans.

Larry Goodson, an American scholar of Afghanistan, interviewed Taliban leaders along the Pakistan border during this period and found that the movement benefited from "a perception that the Americans would leave, that reconstruction would not succeed, and that Afghanistan would return to chaos.

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.