America Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the…

— Calvin Coolidge

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

— George McGovern

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist…

— George McGovern

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing.…

— Orson Welles

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that…

— H. L. Mencken

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity -…

— Timothy Noah

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

— Max Baucus

You have the right to free speech as an American - you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And the mobs…

— Ben Domenech

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since…

— Rick Perlstein

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

— Glenn Greenwald

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's…

— Simon Hoggart