America Today Quotes

• It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

  Roger Ailes

  Running, Sacrifice, America

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

  Douglas Wilder

  Believe, Government, America

  "Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America". "This American Moment" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 15, 2008.

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• The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

  Ali Khamenei

  America, People, Decision

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• The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

  Margaret Mead

  Success, America, People

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• In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

  Herbert Hoover

  Land, America, Today

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Mean, America

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

  Rick Santorum

  Pregnancy, America, People

  "Rick Santorum, GOP presidential hopeful, blames Social Security problems on abortion" by Aliah Shahid, www.nydailynews.com. March 30, 2011.

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• The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

  Frank Luntz

  Powerful, America, Liberty

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

  Brit Hume

  Taken, America, Literature

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• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

  John Lewis

  Country, Religious, Freedom

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  Tom Harkin

  America, People, Sick

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

  Tom Harkin

  America, Sick, Care

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• With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

  Kwame Dawes

  Book, Writing, America

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• Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Sacrifice, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stupid, Party, America

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• WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Father, America, Atheism

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• There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and tell them they need drugs and these children are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years-old being treated in this manner.

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Years, America

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• Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marijuana, America, Drug

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• Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

  Gerald Celente

  Cities, America, Energy

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• Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.

  John McCain

  Moving, America, Trying

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Thinking, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, World, Today

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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