American Expectations Quotes

Putting aid for Harvey victims in limbo because of our own inability to handle pressing deadlines in a timely manner is not only inappropriate, but it sends the wrong message to millions of Americans in Texas and millions more who put us in Washington to do a job. We owe them better.

We can’t go on pretending to Americans that we can have everything.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

If you are going to run for national office, you'd better understand that optimism is something Americans expect.

Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

Americans expect others to embrace democracy immediately when we as a nation didn’t.

[Referring to Richard Nixon:] There are frightening implications for the future of our country if we do not impeach the President of the United States ... If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent with reasonable expectations of the American people.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.