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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
— Shashi Tharoor
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
— Paul Keating
Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thingafter exhausting every other possible alternative. — Winston Churchill
If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.
— Herbert Stein
America has amnesia ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
— Paula Gunn Allen
If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.
— James Taranto
Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.
— Edward Kennedy
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
— Charlie Gonzalez
You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.
— Gordon Sinclair
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I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.
— Barack Obama
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
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.
— Leon Wieseltier
Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
— Greg Proops
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
— Bob Etheridge
You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.
— Herman Melville
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.
— Emily Robison
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.
— Maria Cantwell
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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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
We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
— Maria Cantwell
Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news.
— Karl Marlantes
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
— Paula Gunn Allen
The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.
— Julian Castro
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
— Hermann Goring
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
— Marilynne Robinson
Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
— Katharine Whitehorn
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
— George Washington
(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
— Michael Pollan
The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.
— Bernie Sanders
"My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Under the banner "Mission Accomplished."
— George W. Bush
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
— Irakli Okruashvili
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
— Bruce Feiler
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
— Danai Gurira
English restrictive legislation merely hastened the process and inadvertently pushed Americans toward self-sufficiency. At
— Robert G. Ahearn
Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
— Susan Rice
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,
— Philip Freneau
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
— John C. Danforth
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
— Bob Greene
The Americans are like shadows . . . frightening until you finally touch them and realize that their image was their power all along.
— Mark Henshaw
America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.
— Christie Brinkley
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.
— Ralph Steadman
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
— Sherman Alexie
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
— Cullen Hightower
Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.
— Lamar Alexander
The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.
— Newt Gingrich
I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
— Norman Corwin
Americans love that, no? To think of jewelry as a dead thing. This is why you keep the Hope Diamond next to your dinosaur bones.
— Sloane Crosley
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
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
— Rahm Emanuel
The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
— Elliott Abrams
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
— Chinua Achebe
The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them.
— Reince Priebus
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
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
— John M. McHugh
The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.
— Harvey V. Fineberg
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
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
— Margaret Mead
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
— Constance Baker Motley
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
— Maureen Dowd
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
— Amity Shlaes
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
— John Irving
You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.
— Violetta Botzet Luetgers
Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
— Lisa Snowdon
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
— Gayle Forman
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
— Leah Ward Sears
