In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) 

It [New York City] is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) 

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) 

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
Robert Boynton 

Only in American banks can you find the pens chained to the counter and the doors wide open.
Branden Kerr 

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
William Torrey Harris  , U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) 

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
Gunnar Myrdal