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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. — Shashi Tharoor

The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method. — James Aldridge

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 thing
after 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

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

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own. — Ralph Peters

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

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. — Gregory Kane

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

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — Tariq Ali

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

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion. — Bauvard

(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.) — Michael Pollan

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans. — John Cornyn

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

I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect. — Todd Park

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 Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that! — Maelle Gavet

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

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. — Cory Booker

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. — Bob Greene

Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine; the don't travel well. — Bernard Falk

The Americans are like shadows . . . frightening until you finally touch them and realize that their image was their power all along. — Mark Henshaw

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there. — Mitt Romney

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. — Christie Brinkley

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. — Leslie Fiedler

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are. — Noah Feldman

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

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?' — Jim Wallis

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.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

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

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever. — Randy Forbes

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

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

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 only thing separating Americans and Brits is a comman language. — H.P. Mallory

The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve. — Harvey V. Fineberg

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. — Andre Dubus

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

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913. — Frank Chodorov

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

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. — Matt Taibbi

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. — George W. Bush

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. — Leah Ward Sears

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't. — Jonah Goldberg

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English. — John Cleese

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. — Rick Perry

Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game. — Jack Abramoff