"The America that we knew as the smartest……" — Ben Stein

"The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind."

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102 Quotes by Ben Stein

Ben Stein has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up…
I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is…
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove…
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for…
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly…
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to…
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it…
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
It's a lot better to hope than not to.
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the…
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

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More America Quotes

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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