American life Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“People don’t run the cartel; the cartel runs people.”

— Don Winslow

“I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.”

— Henry Clay

“We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.”

— Scott Ritter

“Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart…”

— Orson Scott Card

“-- it's rapidly turning into an us versus them scenario. And it's all but assured that someone is going to fall into the mass…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

“In reality, though, the ranks of our enemies, those who would and can inflict serious damage on America, have grown and diversified.”

— Ted Koppel

“It seemed a shame to bargain with one who had learned the tricks of guarding her business, of protecting her trade against greedy intruders.”

— Murzban F. Shroff

“For jobs and men, it’s a seller’s market. There are no other fish in the sea.”

— Nell Zink

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

“We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.”

— Frederick Townsend Martin

“And loyalty is such a rare commodity when riches are involved.”

— Nalini Singh

“The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.”

— Sebastian Barry