Quotes about Americans, page 2

Of course to Americans the term outsiders means outside Iraq. But to an Iraqi it means someone not from this local area.

Quote by John Abizaid about americans

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Quote by Dean Acheson about americans

However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our...

Quote by Erykah Badu about americans

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about americans

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about americans

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.

Quote by Russell Baker about americans

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Quote by Russell Baker about americans

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

Quote by Kim Basinger about americans

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

There can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about americans

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Quote by Michael Caine about americans

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

Quote by Michael Caine about americans

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

Quote by Michael Caine about americans