American experience Quote by Condoleezza Rice

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying…

— Pauline Oliveros

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save…

— John C. Calhoun

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

— Nina Hagen

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free…

— Richard Lugar

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as…

— Jeb Bush

“Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was no exception.”

— Ron Chernow

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

— Fred Tomaselli