Citizens Quote by William S. Burroughs

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41

— William S. Burroughs

Being positive in a negative situation is not native. It's leadership.

— Anonymous

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring…

— John Podhoretz

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence…

— Paul Begala

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big…

— Lincoln Steffens

The negative is just as important as the positive.

— Ellsworth Kelly

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

— Novak Djokovic

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

— Anonymous

Your concepts of negative and positive may be someone's positive and negative.

— Senora Roy

It's human nature to focus on the negative, we all know that - and if you are in a public position, you just get…

— Fearne Cotton

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own…

— Linda Colley

I'm not a negative person.

— Ian Somerhalder