America Quote by William Pfaff Download Open image “America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.” — William Pfaff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Exhausted Ideas Problem
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… a radical restructuring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
America needs a restart. It has long devoted its energies to solving its many big problems - unequal opportunity, crumbling infrastructure, lagging education, inadequate… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff 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 for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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 activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
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 not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
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