America Quotes - Page 102

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.