American Way Of Life Quotes - Page 2

Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.

Matt Lauer

Running, Country, Inspiration

"Kanye West Rips Bush at Telethon", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2005.

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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

C. Wright Mills

Way, Entertainment, Distraction

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Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

Nancy Gibbs

Christian, Challenges, Way

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...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.

William J. Clinton

Children, War, Oil

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It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . .

Lou Dobbs

Party, Political, Way

Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.29, Penguin

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I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

Paullina Simons

Thinking, United States, Way

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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bible, God, Religious

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.274, Best Books on

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The American way of life is not negotiable.

George H. W. Bush

Way, Life Is

"The Long and Warming Road" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

Al Gore

People, Way, Destruction

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Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.

Mike Pence

Country, Rights, People

Source: www.politico.com

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There`s plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life.

Donald Trump

Thinking, Islam, Way

Source: www.msnbc.com

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The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.

Michelle Malkin

Past, Differences, Immigration

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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

Erica Jong

Peace, Men, Selfishness

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Open Road Media

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Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry Wriston

Life, Patriotic, Risk

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Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

Robert Bork

Christian, Religious, Way

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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

Stephen Malkmus

Stupid, People, United States

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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Real, Friendly, Way

"The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.

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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

Douglas MacArthur

War, Character, Way

Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one.

Ari Fleischer

Believe, Blessed, Goal

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