 | An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
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A Chinese child. |
| "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
- Albert Einstein
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| "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
- Dan Rather
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| "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses."
- George F. Will
, Statecraft as Soulcraft. |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
- Gore Vidal
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| "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
- H. L. Mencken
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| "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."
- J. Bartlett Brebner
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| "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin
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| "Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."
- Malcolm X
, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965. |