The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“All the structural problems that economists had warned about coalesced after 1973–74 to jolt American life. These included sagging productivity, declining competitiveness… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The great problem of American life [is] the riddle ofauthority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberaland individualistic social order,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“It is often a puzzle for foreigners why the United States has such a dismal performance when it comes to murder, guns,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“In our personal lives, we can seek to align our behavior with our values. We can live more simply, at once reducing… — John C. Ryan Copy Share Image
“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
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