285 Quotes About Americans

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Only Americans smile all the time.

Then a delegation of blow-dried American scientists arrived.

I have watched my country accept, mostly quite complacently, along with a lower living standard for more and more people, a lower moral standard. A moral standard based on advertising.

[New York is] the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

I believe that the attitudes and actions that will restore America now are the very things that originally formed America.

Later I would know some real workers—heavily tattooed, hair worn in ponytails, motorcycle-riding, manga-reading, and pill-popping—and I realized they were as batty as we were, far from the standardized robots of our fantasies. Americans, rich or poor, were a nation of weirdos.

Pakistanis are a pious, warm and hospitable people,’ wrote Richard Leiby, a Washington Post reporter who spent a year and a half there, lamenting that the news from Pakistan did not reflect that. He noted, however, that the bad news about Pakistan was not untrue. In his view, ‘Just like average Americans’, the simple Pakistani people ‘pay the price of their leaders’ magnificent mistakes’.

Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.