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American Quotes by Eric Alterman
- The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent…
- American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
- Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
- Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
- To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the…
- One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the…
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca