“A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.” AmericaPresidentGreatnessNotionDeterminedChiefsRejectsExecutivesRestorationChief Executives Author:David Limbaugh
“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.” MeanCountryDreamAmericaYoungOpportunityParentEqualNotionMythIncomeDependentAmerican DreamOther CountriesProspectsEqual OpportunityEquality Of Opportunity Author:Jedediah Bila
“I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.” FeelsSeemsAmericaProgressStrangeConcernedFlowNotionCuresTragicCherishIrrationalMisconception Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.” MightTodayChristianAmericaJesusBornSinModelsIdealsSalvationNotionStrikesGods WillIranRepublicChastityIdeal Society Book:The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.” WantFeelsAmericaSufferingPrinciplesStudentsGreatnessAchievementComfortableResourcesSkinsDemocraticNotionOneselfAvailableDenyGuidanceComparisonContemptHeroicExtensionsBourgeoisiePerversion Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.” PeopleAmericaNotionProfitRight ThingMotiveProfit Motive Author:Chris Matthews