Subject: Places » America

Never criticize Americans… they have the best taste that money can buy.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to never practice either of them.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to accommodate all these singing shows.

(1974 – ) American comedian

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can’t be wrong!”

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the states, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, but if you ask a native American, that number is more like 300 million.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

I’m thrilled that the American people stopped him from running this time; as a citizen, I’m happy about that, but as a comic, I weep.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing – and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist

We might as well give them ours, we aren’t using it.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

I’m so American that I’m barely informed enough to have an opinion, but entitled enough to yell about it.

American comedian

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president