Air Quote by Ralph Steadman

Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out.

— Reinhold Messner

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must…

— Langston Hughes

Every day we are slathered with the biggest bunk of lies and distortions and half-truths that I can recall. And all the while the…

— Rush Limbaugh

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.

— Rumi

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

— Martin Delany

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

— Ronald Reagan

And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine,…

— Saddam Hussein

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

— Greg Child

“It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix…

— Keith Ellison

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix…

— Billy Corgan

There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to…

— Jerry Springer