Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
George Will

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George Will

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
John Walters

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Osama bin Laden

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
Johnnie Cochran

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
Benjamin Netanyahu

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

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
Ziggy Marley

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
George Takei

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.
Tony Campolo

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
Brigitte Bardot

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
Anita Loos

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
C. Wright Mills