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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
— Frederick Douglass
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
— Jeb Bush
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
— Jacques Maritain
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
— Herbert Hoover
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
— John Knowles
'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
— Crystal Bowersox
American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
— Shirley Henderson
A lot of people refuse to do things ...
— Nikki Giovanni
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
— Gore Vidal
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
— Mary Harris Jones
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
— Russell Means
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
— Michael Moore
I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.
— Segolene Royal
As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
— Amy Goodman
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
— Judd Gregg
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
— T. Boone Pickens
I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out
— Zalmay Khalilzad
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
— Rick Perry
You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
— Cynthia Carroll
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
— Jacob Lew
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
— Zoe Lofgren
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
— Henry Louis Gates
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
— Michael Huffington
We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
— Benjamin Carson
The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
— Kevin McCarthy
Lying to the American people wasn't part of my job description.
— Ralph W. Moss
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
— James Bovard
I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.
— Michele Bachmann
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
— Russell Simmons
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
— Desi Arnaz
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
— Lee Daniels
Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.
— Luis Fortuno
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
— Bernadette Devlin
I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.
— Rudy Giuliani
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
— Dan Quayle
Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
— William J. Clinton
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
— John Eisenhower
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.
— John Dingell
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
— Bob Schieffer
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
— Hamilton Jordan
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
— Joe Biden
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
— George Mikes
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
— Robbie Robertson
The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.
— Marsha Blackburn
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
— Frank Lautenberg
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
— Daniel Wu
We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.
— Jay Rockefeller
Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!
— Chris Jericho
We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
— Immanuel Kant
President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.
— Mitt Romney
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
— Chief Seattle
I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
— Rand Paul
PEOPLE DIE
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.
— Chris Christie
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go ...
— William McKinley
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
— Chris Cannon
I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.
— Seymour Hersh
Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
— Anasazi Foundation
I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.
— Hillary Clinton
I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
— Foster Friess
One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.
— Rick Perlstein
American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).
— Juan Williams
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
— Anasazi Foundation
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
— Barack Obama
I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.
— Killer Mike
If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.
— Blanche Lincoln
The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.
— Bernie Sanders
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
— Julian Castro
We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.
— Justin Raimondo
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
— Nancy Pelosi
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
— Phil Gramm
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people
— Tip O'Neill
Our aid is work for the American people.
— Rajiv Shah
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
— Thomas Friedman
I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
A people without the knowledge of ...
— Marcus Garvey
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
— Martin Freeman
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
— Grover Cleveland
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
— John Hodgman
We will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America.
— Mike Pence
To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
— Isaac Asimov
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
— Ben Bradlee