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After all, Americans can be terrifying. -- Connie Willis

I'm afraid of Americans. -- David Bowie

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. -- David Letterman

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations. -- Leonard Peltier

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen. -- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic ... I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans. -- Oscar Wilde

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it. -- Yahtzee Croshaw

Americans are so dumb! -- Bjork

The great silent majority. -- Richard M. Nixon

[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures. -- Sheena Iyengar

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval. -- Geoffrey Wood

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded. -- Ichiro Ozawa

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. -- Meir Kahane

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. -- Nancy Astor

Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money. -- Eddie Huang

America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people. -- Philip Roth

Americans like fat books and thin women. -- Russell Baker

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. -- Ruhollah Khomeini

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be. -- Robert Wuhl

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan. -- Anthony Lewis

Chinese people themselves, they really want change. -- Dalai Lama

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country. -- Gore Vidal

The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind. -- Pope Pius Xii

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. -- Alain Prost

I'm very American. -- Norah Jones

I think Americans have big hearts. -- Gene Sperling

We are Americans best when we are not Americans first. -- Russell D. Moore

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. -- Miles Kington

Indians, schmindians! -- George Armstrong Custer

Gringos! They have copied us again -- Luis Alberto Urrea

And I think Americans are phenomenal people. -- Joe Miller

You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is -- A.w. Tozer

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it. -- Chuck Todd

The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato. -- Bauvard

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. -- Matt Damon

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct? -- Allen Ginsberg

Helping each other out, that's America. -- Chris Kyle

You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned. -- Louisa Edwards

We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers. -- Anne Sexton

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. -- Matt Taibbi

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill. -- Lionel Barber

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. -- Leonard Cohen

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. -- Mark Twain

We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf

I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are. -- Charles B. Rangel

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. -- Henry Cisneros

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world. -- Meital Dohan

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans -- David Mccullough

People are universal. -- L.a. Jones

I'm a voyeuristic American. -- Casey Wilson

We Americans ... bear the ark of liberties of the world. -- Mark Twain

Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. -- Mikhail Bulgakov

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why. -- Kitty Burns Florey

Once upon a time the English knew who they were. -- Anna Pavlova

Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio. -- Ernest Hemingway,

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? -- Michael De Luca

The American Dilemma, -- Michelle Alexander

Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. -- Michael Moore

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. -- H.l. Mencken

American men are like women. -- Bikram Choudhury

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. -- Marianne Williamson

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled. -- Noam Chomsky

Monkey People? They -- Rudyard Kipling

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire. -- Julia Child

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them. -- Will Rogers

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. -- Conor Oberst

reaches the American consumer, only one American worker has physically touched the final product: the UPS delivery guy. -- Enrico Moretti

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

And Englishmen like posing as gods. -- E. M. Forster

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt -- Jesse Jackson

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. -- Elfriede Jelinek

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. -- James Frey

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. -- Georges Clemenceau

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. -- Demetri Martin

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. -- Mick Jagger

themselves and their own -- Benjamin Franklin

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them. -- Peter Capaldi

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. -- E. V. Lucas

If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists. -- George Washington

Americans are artisans in freedom. -- Derrick G. Jeter

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. -- Jose Antonio Vargas

America is a willingness of the heart. -- F Scott Fitzgerald

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. -- Ralph Steadman

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing
after exhausting every other possible alternative. -- Winston Churchill

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

We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary. -- Steve Toltz

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things. -- Frances Mayes

Our friends, the enemy. -- Pierre-Jean De Beranger

I love America. I love Americans. -- John Lydon

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. -- David Cameron

We go to Europe to be Americanized. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. -- Eric Idle

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig. -- Joseph Pilates

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. -- Pablo Picasso

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. -- Deborah Eisenberg

They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries. -- Arundhati Roy

What does America love more than one white male? -- Paul Mooney

They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race! -- Rene Barjavel

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. -- Walker Percy

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived. -- Peggy Noonan