American capitalism has been both overpraised and…

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

— Anonymous

“The overpraised are the worst deceivers." -The Saga of Grettir the Strong”

— Lars Brownworth

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until…

— Edward Albee

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

— Mason Cooley

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success,…

— Mario Cuomo

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant…

— Frank Gaffney

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

— Warren Buffett

Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American…

— Roger Lowenstein

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an…

— Edward Said

“The overall U.S. homeownership rate increased from 64 percent in 1994 to a peak in 2004 with an all-time high of 69.2 percent. Real…

— Gilad Atzmon

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

— Greg Giraldo

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde…

— Karan Mahajan

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and…

— William Pfaff

The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined…

— James P. Cannon