America Quotes - Page 124

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America.

Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

When families are strong, America is strong.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.