"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

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"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

Mohammed Aldouri, Iraqi Politician

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

Paul Guilfoyle, American Actor

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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."

Neville Marriner, English Musician

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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

William J. Clinton, American President

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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

Cesar Conda, American Consultant

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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

Austin O'Malley, American Physicist

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

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"Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing."

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