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“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.”

Giving Years Done Busy Credit Remarkable

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.”

Enemy Sexuality Twisted

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.”

People Doe Country Planets Unique Shopping Fascinated Selfless Affirmation

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans.”

Believe Enemy Models Minorities One Time Asian Fickle Asian American

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.”

Ifs Real Fighting Chance Levels Pay Creative Share Fields Shots Tough Fairs Fighter Playing Fields Resourceful Fair Share Level Playing Field

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who really put religion so front-and-center. He's the most Christ-y president we've ever had - and he is, not uncoincidentally, the biggest disaster we've ever had. I think even people who are religious don't like it shoved down their throat. I think people kind of get it on a certain level, that this is an antiscience administration, and we're living in a time where we can't afford to be antiscience - for environmental reasons, for educational reasons.”

People Thinking Firsts Kind Reason Certain President Christ Religious Levels Accepting Fronts Criticism Environmental Educational Disaster Administration Throat

Author:Bill Maher

“Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.”

Realizing Loses Land Finally Realizing

Author:Christine Todd Whitman

“Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.”

Money Finance

Author:Celso Cukierkorn

Source: Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.”

States President United Watches United States Tvs Allowing Freedom To Choose

Author:Ron Wyden

“Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.”

Littles Agree Mars Venus

Author:Robert Kagan

“Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.”

People Firsts Shock Museums Funny People

Author:Mick Jagger

“Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.”

People War Resources Lifestyle Consumers Corporate Gathering Loan Saying No Takeovers Imf Just Say No

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.”

Thinking Self Sufficient Pretension Self Sufficient

Author:Tom Bodett

“Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.”

Pleasure Intellectual Seeking Pleasure Seeking

Author:Jesse Ball

“Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.”

Car Noise

Author:Will Rogers

“Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.”

Years Sometimes Given Four Honour Four Years Sole Jailer

Author:Che Guevara

“Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.”

Country Use Stuff Shops Holiday Other Countries Thanksgiving Mud

Author:Bill Maher

“Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.”

Ends Fighting Causes Religious Isis

Author:Chuck Todd

“Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.”

Ends Bison

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“Americans are good at making dance music.”

Dance Music

Author:Ed Simons

“Americans are good people, humanity supports, but their problem is that they do not vote for president they choose genocide leaders from Bush to Biden,they are all genocidal leaders”

Humanity Killing Usa Genocide Dictatorship United States Of America Zakiansariquotes Zakiashkim Zaki Ansari

Author:Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.... I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.”

People Thinking Knows World Use America Hate Taken Information Concern Majority Complexes Destroyed Maps Good People Aggression Outside World Zionist Don't Hate

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.”

People Way Want Hard Dream Government Care Policy Hard Work Proud Taxes Take Care Pursue Innovative Government Policy Bad Government High Taxes

Author:Tim Walberg

“Americans are hidden dragons to me.”

Dragons

Author:Ang Lee

“Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.”

Feels War Cold Proud Patriotic Cold War

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.”

Problem Community Policy Solutions Hungry Discussion

Author:J. C. Watts

“Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.”

World Home Relation Hungry

Author:Susan Rice

“Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.”

Facts Cities Dues London Paris Latter Lots Of Money

Author:James Weldon Johnson

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”

People Inspirational Fear Business Break Investment Cycles Take Time Break Out It Takes Time

Author:Warren Buffett

“Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.”

Needs Sometimes Stories Wonderful Information Easier Messages News Performances Entertainment Objectives Hopefully Stereotype Outlets

Author:Nia Long

“Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.”

Hard Truth Trouble Danger Serious Intellectual Losing Lows Expectations Mixtures Intellectualism Rationalism Low Expectations

Author:Susan Jacoby

“Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.”

Ifs Habit Walking Planning Urban Urban Planning Urban Design

Author:Louis-Philippe I of France

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

World Black White Affair Black And White Foreign Affairs

Author:Richard Kerry

“Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.”

Firsts Said Light Funny America Time Turns Nations Periods Green Usa Traffic Signals Horns Impatient Impatience Nationality Hurrying Traffic Light Honking

Author:Jim Rohn

“Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.”

Want Long Polite

Author:Ben Fountain

Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.”

Way Matter Government School Nations Sides Religious Public School

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.”

People Way Believe Teach Buddhism Command Open Minded Education System

Author:Dalai Lama

“Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.”

Long Problem Term Worst Bigger Long Term Signals Dice Uzbekistan

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.”

Way Food Regard Dinner Evening

Author:Art Buchwald

“Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.”

People Needs Giving Heart Effort Known Victim Generosity Relief Reach Out Fortitude Time Of Need Donate

Author:Michael Dell

“Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.”

Courses Products Golf Generous Mystical Meadows Folding Mowers Rotary

Author:Alistair Cooke

Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.”

Believe Reason Politician Passionate Resilience Selfish Clarity

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”

Giving Made Funny America Father Wish Rich Son Humorous Nationalism Hardship

Author:Robert Frost

“Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.”

Men Way Mouths Pacs

Author:Diane Lane

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

Levels Attitude Behavior Bigger Coffee Driving Consumption Expanding

Author:Robert Nelson

“Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.”

Common Identity Chinese California Boston Alabama Wisconsin Southerner Westerners Northerners American Identity

Author:John Steinbeck

“Americans are much more open than people in Britain.”

People Britain

Author:Michael Sheen

“Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.”

Men Nature United States Lovers Nature Lover

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.”

Trouble Nervous Restless Pessimistic

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”

People Perfect Missions

Author:Andrew Jackson

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