“I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.” MenWritingWellsChildrenBookTodayAmericaFictionMen And WomenThoughtfulEntertainingAmerica Today Author:Jennifer Weiner
“Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.” TodayAmericaYoungTaxesPaidAbsolutesWorkersFixedDisgracePresent DayAmerica Today Author:John McCain
“Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.” YearsTodayJobsAmericaLostHoursMillionsTradeWorkersAverageDecentAgreementWagesAmerica TodayTrade Agreements Author:Hillary Clinton
“The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.” TodayAmericaBrainKitchenDrainsAmerica TodayKitchen SinksBrain Drain Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.” IfsWayFeelsShouldWellsFactsHappensTodayAmericaFacesNationsCausesLosesMoralPositionSickAidsAmerica Today Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayWantedAmericaCertainFeltWalksReadyMonthsSurpriseWoodsStuckSmokeThis DayTrafficJamAmerica TodayForebodingTraffic JamKeennessWalk In The WoodsStuck In Traffic Author:Bill Bryson
“America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.” WarTodayAmericaCultureMediaHonestyStandardsCaughtTerrorConfusedCaught UpAmerica Today Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.” KnowsTodayAmericaCoursesMillionsOur LivesStudentsBlindUniversityArchitectureEducatedSpotsDepartmentEnlightenedBasementsAmerica TodayBlind Spots Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.” MindInspirationAgeTodayAmericaOpportunitySoundBrainProgressDivineToolsCorporateLiberalismHistorianIndividualismVocabularyGovernanceDegeneratesPlunderAmerica TodayDivine Right Author:Bill Moyers
“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.” PeopleWellsEndsReasonEnoughBigsTodayAmericaYoungThreeSocialSupportTroubleSecurityThirdsWorkersAbortionPregnancySocial SecurityAmerica Today Author:Rick Santorum
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.” IfsMenGivingFeelsStatesHappensTodayAmericaValuesIndividualUnited StatesDemocracyDangerCitizensImportanceResponsibleMajorityActiveNewspapersGravesCeaseAdvertisingAgentsRepublicPublicityFascistsAmerica Today Author:May Sarton
“The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.” PeopleTodayAmericaPovertyAmerica TodayPoverty In America Author:Brian Tracy
“I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.” PeopleBelieveI CanTodayAmericaCertainSituationSupportExampleAbuseGrossCompoundsFundamentalistAmerica Today Author:Ginnifer Goodwin