American Quote by Stephen Kinzer

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Monopolies harm Americans in all sorts of ways.

— Lina Khan

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a…

— Zephyr Teachout

Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of government solved…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

— Marco Rubio

“This illustrates an important point: then as now, Americans tend to think about issues like macroeconomic policy or foreign affairs only when things go…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

— Orson F. Whitney

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of…

— C. Wright Mills

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate…

— Anthony Shadid

There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven government in…

— Michael Scheuer

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

— Giovanni Agnelli

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other…

— Michael Mandelbaum