“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.” IfsThinkingHas BeensAmericaCultureBlackNew YorkRapParisCould Have BeenRap MusicBlack America Author:Ice Cube
“For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.” IfsHas BeensHappensTodayAmericaPatientIllDecadesWarningMentally Ill Author:Ann Coulter
“When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.” WayHas BeensEndsAmericaFormResultsFunctionInstitutionsRepublicMechanismPresidencySymptomsDecadenceCabal Author:T. D. Allman
“Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.” PeopleWorldWantHas BeensCountryFactsAmericaValuesOpportunityIndividualGivenPoorTalentThis WorldCitizensSeekingDebtWelcomeContributionDistinctionImmigrantsMotivatedInnovativeRichnessEntrepreneurialUneducatedDeveloped Country Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.” Has BeensIdeasCountryAmericaCultureLaborImmigrants Author:Marc Veasey
“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.” Has BeensRealAmericaTroubleDoctorsVictimMedicalSuitsTerrifiedBusinessmanRobotsBureaucratsMalpractice Author:Shana Alexander
“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.” YearsBelieveHas BeensHomeAgeAmericaCitiesSuccessfulCivilizationSorryDecadesApartmentGreat Cities Book:The House in Good Taste Source: The House in Good Taste
“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.” FirstsHas BeensDreamAmericaValuesHouseInterestWhiteClassStreetsMiddlePrivilegeAdministrationMiddle ClassWhite HouseAbandonedDeniedMainstreamIgnoredScornedMain Street Author:John F. Kerry
“North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.” IfsHas BeensAmericaUsedCultureCasesViolenceArmsHigherRegardBlameIndianNorth AmericaSusceptible Book:The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America Source: The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America
“America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.” MayChildrenHas BeensTodayEarthAmericaCommunityUnited StatesViolenceCrimeKillingEpidemics Author:Sissela Bok
“I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.” WellsLongHas BeensAmericaBlackStreetsLong TimeTraditionHip HopHipsHopsSociologyPulseBlack Music Author:Quincy Jones
“We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand people have been detained in America and questioned about their motives and their intentions.” PeopleMayHas BeensHumorAmericaPoliticalThousandFindingsIntentionMotivePolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.” PeopleHas BeensStatesMightAmericaPurposeSocialUnitedUnited StatesColdPromiseLateSpringBraveGreat MenSteadyUnited States Of AmericaMight Have BeenApprehensionUneasyLate Spring Author:Joan Didion
“Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.” WorldHas BeensMadeDoneAmericaLeftPresidentBarackTouched Author:Dennis Prager
“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?” PeopleYearsHas BeensCountryMatterFactsEarthLastsAmericaWealthResultsHalfClassMillionsMiddleWorstMajorsBottomIncomeInequalityThirtyMiddle ClassWarfareWorking ClassDistributionHandfulBillionaireThirty YearsClass WarfareDistribution Of Wealth Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.” WayYearsHas BeensFactsAmericaPastDifferencesViewsLandStrangeEuropeIndiaImportanceIsraelBritishColonialismIsraeliHomelandCongo Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.” ShouldHas BeensBigsTogetherAmericaHumanityConsciousnessIssuesCenturyDangerConscienceCooperation21st Century Author:William J. Clinton
“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.” Has BeensAmericaForceNationsConscienceCommitmentCrucialUnifying Author:Jon Meacham