Quotes of: Fellow-americans Keyword

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

George Takei

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

Gordon Waller

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

Geoffrey Wood

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

Hans Kung

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

Helmut Kohl

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry A. Kissinger

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.

Herman Kahn

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John A. Powell

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

John Prendergast

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

John Prendergast

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

J. B. Smoove

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

Jalal Talabani

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Donald L. Carcieri

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

David Duke