America Quote by Shelby Steele

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

— Alphonso Jackson

“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

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the…

— Benjamin Carson

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could…

— Edward Said

The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of…

— David Frum

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised…

— Evelyn Anthony

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America…

— Simon Frith

“The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant is the…

— Elizabeth Warren

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of…

— Rick Santorum

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To…

— Richard Louv

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march…

— Vic Snyder