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Americans Quotes


"The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."


"Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless."


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


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


"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."


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


"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."


"There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process."


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about."


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


"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."


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