Americans Quotes

• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Dead
  • Grows
  • Buildings

• Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Tired
  • Injustice

• Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Behavior
  • Americans
  • Shocked

• Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • System
  • Benefit
  • Hysteria

• 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.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Understand
  • Americans
  • Liberties

• Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Americans
  • Injustice
  • Exploitation

• Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Inspiration
  • Nation

• Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Good
  • English
  • Europeans

• It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Top
  • Majority

• The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Bible

• The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

  

  Michael D. Barnes
  • Everything
  • Television
  • Advertising

• Losing access to quality and comprehensive coverage, including for prescription drugs, would be devastating to older Americans.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Quality
  • Drugs
  • Coverage

• I don't think the Americans by and large putted very well, ... and we're only 2 down.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Think
  • Well
  • Putted

• In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Experience
  • Army
  • Price

• The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Control
  • Government
  • Impunity

• 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.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Issues
  • Nation
  • Discussion

• But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Americans
  • Horns
  • Praises

• I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time.

  

  Hector Tobar
  • People
  • Experiences
  • Latin America

• Shortly after Medicare was passed, Americans were told it would cost $12 billion in 1990. Actual cost? $98 billion. Americans were also told that the cost of Medicaid would be less than $1 billion in 1992. Actual cost? $17 billion.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Americans
  • Billion

• All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Slave
  • Americans
  • Master

• We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

  

  Bill Murray
  • World
  • Forefathers
  • Decent country

• The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Story
  • Told
  • Europeans

• “Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.”

  

  Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Country
  • Look
  • Outward

• We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

  

  Edwin Feulner
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Role

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