American Opinion Quotes

I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

Americans want the building to continue. They expect and deserve a government that will allow that to happen.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.

At Washington I found the extraordinary significance if China in American minds. [It] accorded China almost equal fighting power with the British Empire and rated the Chinese [Nationalist] armies as a factor to be mentioned in the same breath and the armies of Russia. I told the President how much I felt American opinion overestimated the China would make to the general war. He differed strongly.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

Most American want their politicians to support the right of abortion but they don’t want them to be too enthusiastic about it.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

I think most Americans don't agree with the idea that the best qualified person should not get the job.

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

The best thing that most Americans can say about the UN is that it is ineffectual. That’s the best thing.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.

The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.

I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security.

The Klitschko boys, they're great fighters, but they're just boring here in America.