#americans

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#been #country #history #i #interested

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. ↗

— Dave Attell

#indians #kid #loved #me #native

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#affordable #affordable health care #all americans #care #health

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems. ↗

— Carl Levin

#again #budget #country #cutting #fiscal

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#another #because #development #hearts #just

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#education #future #generation #priority #shortsighted

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#completely #cut #deficit #deficit reduction #face

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major