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

Needs Long Land Protect Resources Public Lands

“Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.”

Want Made Together Energy Clear Excited Made It Harness

Author:Frances Beinecke

“Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.”

Art Art Of Living

Author:Breyten Breytenbach

“Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.”

Men Should Grows Causes Events Television He Man Stronger Reports Fades Never Quit Mystique

Author:Joe McGinniss

Source: The Selling of the President 1968

“Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.”

Capacity Coffee Abstract

Author:Georges Clemenceau

“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.”

Has Beens Ideas War Hard States Realizing Liberty Economic Middle Police East Decades No Idea Middle East Asia Police State East Asia Gestapo

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.”

Past

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.”

Political Values Belief Religious Responsibility Arise Ideology Life Experience Religious Belief Political Ideology

Author:Gary Bauer

“Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.”

Fighting Notion Surrender Supposed To Be Willingness Recurring

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.”

Needs Challenges Economy Track

Author:Jeff Merkley

“Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.”

Mind Wells Long Ideas Dream Moving Social Felt Path Rich Inequality American Dream Mobility Being Rich Social Mobility

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.”

World Projects Around The World

Author:Emilio Pucci

“Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.”

Needs Children Reason Bigs Mother Fighting Liberty Brother Forgotten Ill Libertarian Luxury Libertarianism Nasty Mistaken Viewpoints Protecting Her

Author:Mary Ruwart

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

“Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.”

Guests Helpless Unarmed

Author:Ted Nugent

“Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.”

Made Decision Behinds Technology Computer Sitting Doctors Screens Medical Miles Bureaucrats Miles Away Decisions Made Computer Screen

Author:Al Gore

“Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.”

Two Passion Liberty And Love Distinction Ardent

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

Source: Traits of American Life

“Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.”

Needs Government Levels Weapons Areas Threat Including Terror Aggravation Bios

Author:Paul Gillmor

“Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.”

Views Compassion

Author:Adam Kinzinger

“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.”

Inspirational Years Funny Next Students College Particular Travel Graduates Graduation Funny Travel Indonesia College Students Myopic

Author:Julie Taymor

“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”

Particular Innocent Explanation

Author:Patricia Briggs

Source: Blood Bound

“Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.”

Country Energy Issues Dangerous Clean Environmental Crucial Dependence Reducing Clean Energy Foreign Countries Environmental Issues

Author:Martin Heinrich

“Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.”

Humour Adolescence Angst

Author:Sarah Beth Durst

Source: Drink, Slay, Love

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

Knows Actors Stars Movie Movie Star

Author:Patti Smith

“Americans just don't understand dry wit.”

Wit Dry

Author:John Oliver

“Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.”

Country Together Conventions Get Together

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.”

Ifs Want America Law Concerned Congress Justified Want U

Author:John Glenn

“Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.”

Men Country Hate Afghanistan

Author:Uwe Reinhardt

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Long Gay Borders Canada Phases July Skis Being Gay

Author:Scott Thompson

“Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.”

Knows Topics

Author:Bruce Feiler

“Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.”

Knows Way Facts Simple Taxes Democrat Cant Recessions

Author:Pete Sessions

“Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.”

Knows Littles Important Social Not Sure Statistics

Author:Milton Friedman

“Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”

Catastrophe

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.”

Ifs Long Three Winning Loses Five Player Mets Stronger Favors Winner Score Plus Three Times

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Americans like fat books and thin women.”

Book Moral Fats Manners Usa United States Of America

Author:Russell Baker

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

Kind Certain Strange British Cute Charm Accents

Author:Nick Park

“Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.”

Giving Believe Real Ends Stories Reality Views Overcoming Obstacles Real Life Triumph Diets Steady Unhealthy

Author:Bartlett Sher

“Americans like to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like. And then they wonder why they're not happy.”

Happiness Capitalism Happiness Quotes Money Quotes American Culture Americans Happiness Advice Meaning Of Life Quotes Vanity Quotes

Author:Oliver Markus Malloy

Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles

“Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt.”

Giving President Doubt Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:John Dean

“Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Long President Natural Numbers Doubt Involved Benefits Long Time Tendencies Polls Watergate Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:John Dean

“Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.”

Democracy Rich Feel Good Imprisonment Humiliate

Author:Chris Hayes

“Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.”

Money American Accountant Canadian

Author:Northrop Frye

“Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.”

Making Money

Author:Northrop Frye

“Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.”

Knows Country Social Moral Higher Making Money Other Countries Accountants

Author:Northrop Frye

“Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.”

Government Politics Pay Wonder Democracy Jokes Tests Enormous Noses Inconvenience

Author:Frank Zappa

“Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.”

People Thinking Elements Python

Author:Eric Idle

“Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton because he seems like a guy that you could sit down and have a burger and a beer with. It's even why, despite the fact that he sometimes seemed to be not firing on all cylinders, lots of them still like George W. Bush - because he seemed like the kind of guy you could have a burger and a beer with.”

Kind Stills Sometimes Matter Character Facts Seems Guy Down And No Matter What Bills Clinton Warm Despite Beer Firing Burgers Cylinders

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.”

Men Country Police

Author:Cornell William Brooks

“Americans live in a free country, which allows you to believe what you want. Because you think that something is true does not require that it is objectively true. The value of science concerning itself with objective truths is that we can make decisions and statements that affect everyone, which is why legislation really should be based on objective truths, not what is going on in your head.”

Thinking Believe Country Values Decision Truth Is

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.”

Facts America Fairy Tales Americans Myths Fairytales Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Dave Champion

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