America Quotes - Page 23

• Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Stars

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• America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

  Miley Cyrus

  Leadership, Wisdom, Reality

  "Miley Cyrus: Confessions of Pop's Wildest Child" By Josh Eells, www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, Democracy, Favors

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• I'm
  gonna spread out
  over America
  intrude
  my proud blackness
  all
  over the place.

  Mari Evans

  Proud, Spread, Blackness

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

  Barney Frank

  Believe, Doe, Gaddafi

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

  Donald Freed

  Father, Bunch, Founding

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• I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

  Donald Freed

  Dream, American Dream, Nightmare

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• If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

  Thomas Friedman

  Kings, Good Day, Bad Day

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• The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Art, Acquisition, Culture

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• Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

  Paul Krugman

  Money, Gold, Panic

  "Golden Instability", krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. August 26, 2012.

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• You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

  Shannon Lucid

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

  Lisel Mueller

  Sleep, Cities, People

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• The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, White, House

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• In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

  John McCain

  Leadership, Party, Health

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• I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Media, Information

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• One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

  Janet Napolitano

  Plot, Citizens, Elements

  "Terror Threat 'Most Heightened' Since 9/11, Napolitano Says" by Jason Ryan and Devin Dwyer, abcnews.go.com. February 9, 2011.

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• In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

  Rand Paul

  Father, War, Technology

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• The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

  Marco Rubio

  World, Foreign Policy, Willing

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• How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

  Sonny Rollins

  People, Humanity, Ironic

  1958 Statement on sleeve of Freedom Suite.

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• America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

  Sonny Rollins

  Culture, Rooted

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• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Anxiety, Today

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, Together, Industrialization

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books

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• We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Long, Needs, Abnormal

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.73, Basic Books

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• I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, Europe, Updates

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