Top 100 Americans'don't Quotes
#1. If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
Ratan Tata
#2. Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
Jeff Goodell
#3. Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
Al Franken
#4. There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
Peter Bergen
#5. It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
Nick Cave
#7. If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.
Trey Parker
#8. The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.
Tori Amos
#9. Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
Lee Westwood
#10. With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Frank Keating
#11. Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'
Craig Ferguson
#12. I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.
Morgan Spurlock
#14. KSM insisted that the brothers eventually will defeat the United States because Americans don't have the will or stomach to do what must be done to stop them.
James E. Mitchell
#15. Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
Andy Stern
#16. Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.
Dan Savage
#17. I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."
Ayshay
#18. Is a direct connection between suburban sprawl and the spiraling cost of government, and most Americans don't see it yet, including many in government. Likewise,
James Howard Kunstler
#19. It is not a case of our people ... wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.
Malcolm X
#20. In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.
Louis Kronenberger
#21. Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.
Dennis Miller
#22. Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.
Roy H. Williams
#23. Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
Vinnie Jones
#24. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.
Bobby Jindal
#25. A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
Henry Rollins
#26. Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
Paddy Chayefsky
#27. Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza.
Conan O'Brien
#28. A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges
#29. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone
#30. What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.
Cory Booker
#31. I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.
Hillary Clinton
#32. Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.
Rush Limbaugh
#33. Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
Miles Davis
#34. What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.
Slavoj Zizek
#35. I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.
Kola Boof
#36. North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel Castro
#37. The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up.
Ashley Hinshaw
#38. Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.
Willie Nelson
#39. The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don't understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars - many of which this country has had a hand in. Although
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#40. Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.
Robert Reich
#41. The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.
Stephan James
#42. Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.
Margaret Atwood
#43. The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.
George J. Mitchell
#44. I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.
Mark Burnett
#45. You Americans so quiet because you Americans don't know anything for real. You know your gas prices, you know your baseball numbers but do you know that no piece of paper can be folded more than seven times?
Alison Espach
#46. I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
Edmund White
#47. As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.
Stuart Rojstaczer
#48. What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
Christiane Amanpour
#49. The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
Robert Reich
#50. One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Robert K. Massie
#51. Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians
Eric Nicol
#52. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert
#53. Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem ... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.
Claire McCaskill
#54. Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
John Hodgman
#55. There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years laterand it's still doing damage.
Henry Rollins
#56. It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.
Dan Ariely
#57. The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
Mike Huckabee
#58. If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
George Nethercutt
#59. Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
Alice Waters
#60. The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Steven Rattner
#61. Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.
Arthur Miller
#62. According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
Maureen Corrigan
#63. Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.
Randall Robinson
#65. I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.
Sean Hannity
#66. I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.
Imran Khan
#67. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.
Barack Obama
#68. Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher
#69. Just because a black man is running the RNC doesn't mean black folks are going to, 'Oh, OK, I will be a Republican.' Just as with the election of President Obama. All the problems and concerns that are very important to African Americans don't get solved overnight.
Michael Steele
#70. The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see ... not, I'm going to hear.
Branford Marsalis
#71. Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
Jeff Goodell
#72. Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
Mitch McConnell
#73. Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.
Maz Jobrani
#74. Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#75. America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.
Ludwig Bemelmans
#77. I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
Ted Cruz
#78. Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
Dave Anderson
#80. Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#81. Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
Marc Maron
#82. Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.
Neal Boortz
#83. Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
Meghan O'Rourke
#84. If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
Pietro Badoglio
#85. You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.
John Doerr
#86. Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.
Anchee Min
#87. Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.
John F. Kerry
#88. ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.
Jay Leno
#89. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.
Charles Kimball
#90. Thanks to evolution, half of all Americans don't believe in evolution.
Thomas Hayden
#91. Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
Peter Greenaway
#92. Increasingly, Americans don't own America.
Marcy Kaptur
#93. In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
David Wenham
#94. I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
Valerie Harper
#95. I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.
Robert Webb
#96. You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I like mature niggas." "I'm not a nigga." "What are you?" "An African American." "Well I don't like African Americans. I like niggas.
Vincent Morris
#97. We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
Amity Shlaes
#98. Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
Adele
#99. Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
#100. The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
Christina Baker Kline
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