American Views Quotes

On this National Immigration Day of Action, it is worth remembering that it's not just Americans in New York or Los Angeles who believe that we need a more humane and rational system.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

A new poll found that 43 percent of Americans think President Obama is doing a good job at handling the BP oil spill. Of course, the same poll found that 43 percent of Americans hate pelicans.

There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists.

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

Can't be all men, can't be all white, can't be all black, can't be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can't be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.

Of all the unpopular things that Donald Trump is doing, the polling shows that the one that's most out of whack with Americans' opinions are these attacks on the environment. And it means, too, that people are going to have to start stepping up a little bit in other places.

To some Americans, Fascism represented the wave of the future

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.

Americans are fine with the use of force as long as nobody gets hurt.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.