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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. -- James Wolcott
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters. -- Charlie Norwood
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. -- Herbert Croly
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. -- Marilu Henner
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. -- W. Edwards Deming
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. -- Marilyn Monroe
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people. -- Seth Shostak
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom. -- Marianne Williamson
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. -- Pico Iyer
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible. -- George Will
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely. -- Ted Nugent
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months. -- Josh Hartnett
Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources. -- Arundhati Roy
I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. -- David Axelrod
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. -- Sebastian Thrun
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. -- Gloria Estefan
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer. -- Jon Porter
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American. -- Barry Eisler
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. -- Jack LaLanne
The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much. -- Dan Buettner
I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at. -- Rachael Ray
I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with. -- Michele Bachmann
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars. -- Alex Shoumatoff
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them. -- Jon Voight
A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. -- Kyrsten Sinema
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? -- John Burdett
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds. -- Abraham Verghese
The average American is just like the child in the family. -- Richard M. Nixon
The standard of living of the average American has to decline. -- Paul Volcker
American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot. -- Simon Sinek
The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. -- Eric Schmidt
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. -- Mark Twain
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. -- Demetri Martin
The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. -- Dennis Miller
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. -- Nancy Gibbs
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. -- William J. Clinton
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. -- George Carlin
When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke. -- George Carlin
For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan
It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country. -- Ashraf Ghani
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him. -- Ludwig von Mises
I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community. -- Michelle Obama
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country. -- Erich Fromm
The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win. -- Bill Vaughan
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. -- Philip Caputo
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. -- James Bovard
People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American. -- Gary Cooper
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. -- Gore Vidal
The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing. -- Terry Teachout
I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed. -- Joe Jamail
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. -- Helen Fisher
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. -- Thomas A. Edison
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job. -- J. D. Hayworth
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. -- George McGovern
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series. -- Steve Rushin
The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people. -- Robert A. Whitney
Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?' -- Bill Maher
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. -- Katharine Hepburn
When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population. -- Jason W Clay
The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs? -- John Bytheway
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. -- Douglas Sirk
I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are. -- Barack Obama
They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane. -- Jay Leno
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not. -- Patti Smith
The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of. -- Erich Fromm
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs. -- Erich Fromm
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC -- Fred Thompson
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC. -- Fred Thompson
It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows. -- Edward Snowden
The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes. -- Erich Fromm
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else. -- Gore Vidal
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
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y -- H. L. Mencken
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse -- H. L. Mencken
The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century. -- Howard Warren Buffett
I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy. -- Marilyn Monroe
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed. -- Ludwig von Mises

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