“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”
Lincoln Steffens book The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p. 2.
In an emailed statement " Trump urges GOP senators to vote against McConnell debt deal https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575876-trump-urged-gop-senators-to-vote-against-mcconnell-debt-deal" (October 7,2021) <br class="br">2021, October 2021
“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”
Lincoln Steffens book The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p. 2.
Mohammad Emami-Kashani (1937) Iranian politician
Friday Sermon at Tehran University: America Will Collapse http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/186.htm July 2004. <br class="br">America to collapse
“Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.”
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 1: Why They Hate Us
“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois (2 July 1932)
1930s
Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952) American politician
The Prize (1993 Edition) by Daniel Yergin. Original source was Roosevelt's papers, as listed in The Prize's Bibliography.
Robert Quillen (1887–1948) American journalist
Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2009-11-13
Beck: I don't identify as white, why do black people identify as black?
Media Matters for America
2009-11-13
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911130029
2000s, 2009
“Guns don't kill people – Americans kill people.”
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
Michael Moore on The Ed Show, MSNBC, March 22, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVORszwdNA <br class="br">2012
“The Chinese and the Americans are great peoples.”
Hu Jintao (1942) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
2000s, White House speech (2006)
Context: The Chinese and the Americans are great peoples. The Americans are optimistic, full of enterprising drive, down to earth, and innovative. In just over 200 years, they have turned the United States into the most developed country in the world, and made phenomenal achievements in economic development and science and technology.