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“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.”

Important Helping Government Jobs America Numbers Environment Failing Succeed Creator Federal Government Small Business Job Creators

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”

Sometimes Seems America Consciousness Quality Failing Approach Experiments Japan Willingness Venture

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

World America Failing Failure Experiments Grandiose

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.”

“we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.”

“At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.”

People Way Should Humans Looks May Different Dream Earth America Nations Race Failing Higher Civilization Ideals Experiments Being The Best Creeds New Ways Different Peoples Different Races

Book:Racism 101

Source: Racism 101

“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.”

Ifs Way Looks Real Country America Loses Failing Conscious Threat Complacent

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.”

World Problem America Dies Fall Sin United States Failing Worst Sick Places In The World Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Book:The Rendezvous

Source: The Rendezvous

“The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.”

Knows Made America Failing Activism Lack Of Knowledge

Book:The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches

Source: The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches