Building Quote by Matt Taibbi

I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It…

— George W. Bush

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during…

— Leo Tolstoy

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get…

— Cornel West

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for…

— Richard Trumka

“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside.…

— Joe Bageant

“The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a chain of…

— Joe Bageant

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to…

— Ambrose Bierce

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as…

— Jennifer Pahlka

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by…

— Theodore C. Sorensen