American Values Quotes - Page 2

• Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

  Robin Morgan

  Racism, Perfect, Combination

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  David Bergland

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

  Marco Rubio

  Important, Motto, God We Trust

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

  Richard Trumka

  Pride, Opportunity, Years

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• We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

  Joe Biden

  Islamic, Needs, Terrorism

  "Reince Priebus condemns Trump on Muslim ban". Article by David M. Drucker, www.washingtonexaminer.com. December 8, 2015.

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• We need to be fighting and rallying around the common American values. This is where the Democratic Party needs to learn and grow as we move forward.

  Sam Rasoul

  Party, Moving, Fighting

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• I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.

  Wesley Clark

  Dream, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.

  Daniel Fried

  Appreciation, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Common Sense, Energy

  "Bloomberg Calls for National Energy Reforms" by Ray Rivera, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 2007.

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying too much around identities. We should celebrate our heritage, we should organize by identity, but we shouldn't advocate and push for certain identities. We shouldn't talk about women suffrage, or plight of Muslims, or refugees; we should talk about our common American values.

  Sam Rasoul

  Thinking, Identity, Common

  "Sam Rasoul on Democracy, The Democratic Party and Identity". Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. May 10, 2017.

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Tradition, Has Beens

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• Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the country are idyllic, suffused with good old American values, social values, religious values, moral values. It's what we tell ourselves to keep this political power structure in place, and it's what we see in pop culture, too.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Real, Believe

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• If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but who love the land as much as any environmentalist. Progressives share a number of common values with people who call themselves conservatives. Barack Obama has understood that very well. What he calls bipartisanship is not adopting conservative views, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share with him and other progressives these fundamental American values.

  George Lakoff

  People, Conservative, Common

  Source: truth-out.org

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• People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Vote, Motivated

  "In Pittsburgh, Clinton and Kaine Call on Americans To Reject Trump's Disdain for Our Democracy and Divisive Rhetoric". www.p2016.org. October 22, 2016.

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• How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.

  Laurene Powell Jobs

  Opportunity, Land, Agree Upon

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• Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

  Jerry Falwell

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 5, 2005.

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• Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

  Anna Eshoo

  Privacy, Personal Privacy, Values

  "More Calif. hearings on AT&T/T-Mobile to come - DoD to unveil cyber strategy today - House E&C holds privacy hearing - House Dems not pleased with GOP spectrum bill" by Tony Romm, www.politico.com. July 14, 2011.

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• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  Jim Jordan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Islamic, America

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

  Dave McGinnis

  Military, Believe, Responsibility

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• I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

  Richard Trumka

  Believe, Wings, Political

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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