America Quotes - Page 144

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if it is marketed in the right way. The motivation is to sell. It's so illogical and strange to me. It's such a disposable culture and yet I feel comfortable being American.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

Instead of engaging on the merits and saying, "Well, we want an open border, you know, we really do," and that's all good for America because they know the people will reject that, they [the elites] attack Donald Trump as an extremist, which I think is unfair.

We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.