Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple… — Brian Sandoval Copy Share Image
I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American… — Henry Giroux 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
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“It is spring 2007, and the block-long security lines into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) are missing now… — Katie King Copy Share Image
“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“It was probably inevitable that the anti-intellectualism of American life would invade college campuses, but that is no reason to surrender to… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Classical liberalism . . . does not wholly define modern American conservatism. There is an added element: a concern with social and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“..."extreme capitalism": the obsessive, uncritical penetration of the concept of the market into every aspect of American life, and the attempt to… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Liberals dominate most of the leading opinion-making areas of American life-- journalism, the movie and television industries, academia, the publishing industry, the… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Central Appalachia is that it is becoming more marginalized in American life just when the country needs more than… — Harry M. Caudill 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
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. — Brad Paisley 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
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that… — Henry Cisneros 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
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz 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
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
