Quotes on Americans

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

Author: Joe Baca

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Author: Tammy Baldwin

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

Author: George Ball

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Author: George Ball

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

Author: Haley Barbour

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

Author: Ana Barros

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Author: Max Baucus

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

Author: Glenn Beck

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Author: Bernardo Bertolucci

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Author: Michael Beschloss

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

Author: Tim Bishop

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

Author: Claire Bloom

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

Author: Sherwood Boehlert

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

Author: John Boehner

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

Author: John Boehner

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.

Author: Mary Bono

How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

Author: James Bovard

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Author: Ray Bradbury

One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year.

Author: Robert Brady

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Author: Carol Braun

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Author: Beau Bridges

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Author: Rita Brown

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Author: Sherrod Brown

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Author: Ken Burns

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Author: George Bush

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

Author: George Bush

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

Author: Herman Cain

We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

Author: Eric Cantor

As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

Author: Lois Capps

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Author: Dennis Cardoza

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

Author: Dennis Cardoza

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

Author: Russ Carnahan

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

Author: Russ Carnahan

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

Author: John Carre

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

Author: Fidel Castro

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Author: Henry Chadwick

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Author: Frank Chodorov

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Author: Winston Churchill

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Author: Jim Clyburn

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

Author: Jim Clyburn

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Author: William Cohen

For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.

Author: Juan Cole

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

Author: George Combe

I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once.

Author: Cesar Conda

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Author: Scott Cook

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Author: Jim Cooper

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Author: Jim Costa

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Author: Jerry Costello

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Author: Herbert Croly

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

Author: Elijah Cummings

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Author: John Danforth

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

Author: Mitch Daniels

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

Author: Edwidge Danticat

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Author: Christopher Darden

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

Author: Mark Dayton

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Author: Howard Dean

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

Author: Andrew Denton

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

Author: Jared Diamond

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Author: Jared Diamond

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

Author: David Dinkins

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Author: Pete Domenici

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Author: William Douglas

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Author: Alan Dundes

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Author: Alan Dundes

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Author: Alan Dundes

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Author: Jennifer Dunn

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

Author: Dick Durbin

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

Author: Roger Ebert

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Author: Albert Einstein

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

Author: John Engler

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Author: Dianne Feinstein

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Author: Gerald Ford

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Author: Virginia Foxx

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Author: Virginia Foxx

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

Author: Virginia Foxx

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

Author: Virginia Foxx

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

Author: Stephen Fry

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Author: Stephen Fry

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

Author: Frank Gaffney

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

Author: Elton Gallegly

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Author: Jay Garner

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

Author: Jim Gerlach

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Author: Jim Gerlach

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Author: Charlotte Gilman

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.

Author: Newt Gingrich

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

Author: Virgil Goode

Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

Author: Bart Gordon

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

Author: William Greider

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

Author: William Greider

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Author: Bill Griffith

I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

Author: Bo Gritz

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

Author: Bo Gritz

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

Author: Bo Gritz

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Author: Albert Hart

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

Author: Doc Hastings

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Author: Brad Henry

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Author: Ruben Hinojosa

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

Author: Luther Hodges

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

Author: Paul Hogan

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

Author: Eric Holder

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Author: Herbert Hoover

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Author: Marilyn Horne

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

Author: John Howard

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Author: Edward Howe

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Author: Arianna Huffington

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Author: Jane Hull

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.

Author: Jane Hull

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

Author: Lamar Hunt

I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.

Author: Lamar Hunt

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Author: Isabelle Huppert

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

Author: James Inhofe

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Author: Jay Inslee

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Author: Jeremy Irons

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

Author: Steve Israel

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.

Author: Steve Israel

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Author: Bianca Jagger

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

Author: Jamelia

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Author: Randall Jarrell

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Author: Randall Jarrell

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Author: Billy Joel

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Author: Herman Kahn

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

Author: Marcy Kaptur

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

Author: Frank Keating

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

Author: John Keegan

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Author: Ric Keller

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

Author: Sue Kelly

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

Author: Sue Kelly

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Author: George Kennan

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Author: John Kennedy

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Author: John Kennedy

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Author: John Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Author: John Kennedy

We could have a budget that brings Americans together.

Author: Patrick Kennedy

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

Author: Richard Kerry

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Author: John Keynes

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Author: Ayatollah Khomeini

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Author: Coretta King

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

Author: Steve King