Distract Quote by Deborah Kass

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

— Mark Dayton

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

— Gore Vidal

“You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.”

— Alan Brown

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old…

— O. Henry

Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely. ... I think loving our…

— Matt Shea

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them.…

— Serj Tankian

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to…

— Henry James

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to…

— Gail Carriger

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol