America Quote by Todd Gitlin Download Open image “The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.” — Todd Gitlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Half In the past Past Year
We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image