300 Quotes on Americans

• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

  Author: Don Young

• It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

  Author: John Yoo

• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

  Author: Peter Yarrow

• It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

  Author: Joe Wurzelbacher

• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

  Author: Michael Winner

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

  Author: George Will

• Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

  Author: George Will

• When good Americans die they go to Paris.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• 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.

  Author: Katherine Whitehorn

• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  Author: H. Wells

• And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

  Author: Robert Welch

• In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

  Author: Robert Welch

• This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

  Author: Henry Waxman

• Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

  Author: Auberon Waugh

• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  Author: George Washington

• The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

  Author: John Warner

• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  Author: Vernon Walters

• 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.

  Author: John Walters

• I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  Author: James Walsh

• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• 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?'

  Author: Jim Wallis

• It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

  Author: Jim Wallace

• Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

  Author: Greg Walden

• As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.

  Author: George Wald

• The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

  Author: Dominique Villepin

• Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

  Author: Mark Twain

• You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

  Author: John Thorn

• Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

  Author: Scott Thompson

• To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

  Author: Norman Thomas

• You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

  Author: James Taylor

• Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

  Author: Serj Tankian

• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Author: James Talent

• Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

  Author: George Takei

• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Author: Bob Taft

• We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

  Author: Lynn Swann

• A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Author: Anna Strong

• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Author: Anna Strong

• I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

  Author: Joseph Sobran

• Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

  Author: Patti Smith

• If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

  Author: Martin Smith

• There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

  Author: Martha Smith

• It's good to do something for Americans for once.

  Author: Jeff Smith

• We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

  Author: Peter Singer

• Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

  Author: Joe Simon

• The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

  Author: George Shaw

• The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

  Author: Michael Scott

• People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

  Author: Michael Scott

• These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

  Author: David Schwartz

• As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

  Author: Joe Scarborough

• Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

  Author: Alexei Sayle

• America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

  Author: Paul Sarbanes

• The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Americans have discovered fear.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  Author: Rick Santorum

• Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

  Author: Nolan Ryan

• The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

  Author: John Russell

• Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  Author: Karl Rove

• If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  Author: Harold Rosenberg

• Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

  Author: James Rogers

• I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

  Author: James Rogers

• And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

  Author: Frank Rich

• Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

  Author: James Reston

• I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

  Author: Janet Reno

• Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

  Author: Harry Reid

• There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.

  Author: Harry Reid

• One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Author: Feisal Rauf

• It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  Author: Dan Rather

• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  Author: Dan Rather

• On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

  Author: Alain Prost

• We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

  Author: Michael Powell

• It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again.

  Author: Colin Powell

• Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

  Author: Pete Pont

• For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

  Author: John Pomfret

• In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

  Author: John Pomfret

• All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

  Author: John Pilger

• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

  Author: John Phillips

• We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

  Author: Rick Perry

• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

  Author: Anne Perry

• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Author: Richard Perle

• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Author: Richard Perle

• They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

  Author: Martin Perl

• It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

  Author: Mike Pence

• It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

  Author: Mike Pence

• I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

  Author: Mike Pence

• It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

  Author: Mike Pence

• We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

  Author: Mike Pence

• Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

  Author: Kilari Paul

• Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

  Author: George Patton

• Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

  Author: George Patton

• Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

  Author: Robert Patterson

• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  Author: George Pataki

• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

  Author: Nick Park

• Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

  Author: Bill Owens

• In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

  Author: Robert Orben

• I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

  Author: Mohammed Omar

• The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

  Author: John Olver

• Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

  Author: John Olver

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Author: Ted Olson

• The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

  Author: Barack Obama

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  Author: Barack Obama

• British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

  Author: Michael Newdow

• Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.

  Author: John Newcombe

• When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

  Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

• Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

  Author: Robert Nelson

• Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work.

  Author: Paula Nelson

• Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

  Author: Nicholas Negroponte

• We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

  Author: Michael Musto

• For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

  Author: Patty Murray

• It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

  Author: Martin Mull

• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

  Author: Constance Motley

• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

  Author: Constance Motley

• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

  Author: Gouverneur Morris

• Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Author: Dick Morris

• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Author: Dick Morris

• We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.

  Author: Esai Morales

• Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

  Author: Thurston Moore

• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Author: Michael Moore

• Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

  Author: George Mitchell

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