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Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do. — Rick Perry

Americans are once again looking outward — Dan Rather

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian. — Ryan Cartwright

I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive. — Kristin Hannah

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world. — Tom DeLay

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are. — Dave Eggers

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity. — Mary Harron

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure. — John M. McHugh

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. — Alain Prost

Americans want real solutions and good jobs. — John Barrasso

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton. — Jay Leno

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail. — Meghan O'Rourke

Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. — Herbert Croly

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

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower. — Harry S. Truman

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee. — Junot Diaz

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. — Eric Liu

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? — Lynn Swann

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity. — Melissa Fay Greene

For a second, Americans could still feel like big swinging dicks. Solidarity, baby. — Paolo Bacigalupi

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans. — John B. Larson

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. — Ted Cruz

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will

I don't want foreigners involved in my business. Jinn are one thing but I draw the line at Americans. — G. Willow Wilson

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years. — John Walters

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. — Mary Bono

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control. — Susana Martinez

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system. — John Shadegg

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it. — Chuck Todd

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans. — Ted Cruz

What fools American can be for England — Charles Finch

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. — Elliott Abrams

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying. — Jim DeMint

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. — Cory Booker

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer. — Sheryl Crow

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris — George F. Will

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans. — Robert E.Lee

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas

No boyfriend! Why not?
Eligible men are scarce - most of them are buried in France.
What about them Americans?
Oh, no. I can't. — David Dennington

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. — Chinua Achebe

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. — William J. Clinton

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. — Niger Innis

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. — Yoshimi Ishikawa

North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. — Fidel Castro

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other. — Carol Browner

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. — Stephen Fry

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. — Sheila Jackson Lee

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs. — Phoebe Tonkin

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise. — Anna Friel

We weren't Americans like everyone else. We'd always be the other in this bullshit country. — Eddie Huang

Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth. — Samuel Beckett

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done. — Rahm Emanuel

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying! — Jack LaLanne

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans. — Hank Johnson

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. — Gore Vidal

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. — Barack Obama

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth. — Barack Obama

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. — Douglas Coupland

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate. — Frank Keating

Which is more important to success - talent or effort? Americans — Angela Duckworth

Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft. — Nancy Isenberg

Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it. — Jamie Johnson

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now. — John McCain

I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling. — Jan Brewer

How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water. — Jim Gaffigan

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. — Elizabeth Joan Smith

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. — Peter T. King

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. — Ken Mehlman

That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed. — Michael Rispoli

You know, OK, I made a few jokes and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade. — Ann Coulter

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me. — Donna Brazile

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. — John M. McHugh

And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway, — Orson Scott Card

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. — Rosanne Cash

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans. — Alex Haley

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone. — Eduard Limonov

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much. — Patricia Riggen

The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them. — Reince Priebus

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

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. — Pat Paulsen

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about. — Abigail Washburn

I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win. — Ann McLane Kuster

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. — Liam Gallagher

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

Is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of? — Diane Johnson

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers. — Martha Stewart