Accomplish Quote by Mark Steyn Download Open image “LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.” — Mark Steyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accomplish Detroit Detroit Model Great society Held Detroit Lbj Lbj Held Models
“But the Great Society did not do nearly as much to improve the economic standing of people as did the extraordinary growth of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“As clear as it is important, the death of Detroit is still mostly ignored. Generally, the slow destruction of a major city would get a fair amount of attention, but the lack of coverage is hardly surprising. After all, the “bad guys” aren’t the popular ones. In most circles, condemning taxation, regulation, unionization, welfarism and protectionism is unfashionable. It’s necessary… — Daniel Greenup Copy Share
It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful. — David Cage Copy Share Image
“The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was "Johnson's War." His critics are correct in pointing to the role of these traits and in arguing that Johnson, commander-in-chief until 1969, possessed the ultimate power to stem the tide of escalation. He was the last, best, and only chance for the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share
It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have… — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't rely on… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
There's things that you want to accomplish, but to do that you have to work. That's the name of the game. — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party. — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen. — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
For what we want to accomplish in the future, we have to be able to view everything from the eyes of the customer. — Karen Katz Copy Share Image
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image