“Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.” MenBookAmericaPresidentPartyStruggleGenerationsPerspectiveBabyDramaAspectBillsDemocraticClintonCastsComplicatedGuidesDestroyedTitlesGreekFascinatingJustifyAmbitiousBiographiesTestimonyDemocratic PartySagaPostmodernBoomersBaby BoomerPresident Bill ClintonGreek Drama Author:Nigel Hamilton
“I played football for seven years in Spain and was called everything because I was from South America, and I never went out crying like a baby, like Patrice Evra, saying that someone had said something to me.” YearsSaidAmericaCryFootballBabySouthSevenSpainSeven YearsSouth America Author:Gus Poyet
“In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.” MenAgeAmericaGenerationsBabyCitizensEmptySevenOrgansSeniorDonorsBoomersSenior CitizenBaby BoomerPepsiOrgan Donor Author:Bill Cosby
“AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.” MenHeartChildrenMadeAmericaCareersRolesBreakChangedTelevisionTaughtBabyMy HeartMarriedDaughterActressesMy ChildrenMy DaughterGoing AwayValleysChanged My LifeClose FriendsMy BabySo SadBreaking My Heart Author:Eva LaRue
“The main problem of America is that you're seeing people working all over this country two jobs, they're working three jobs, and they're getting nowhere in a hurry. They're working hard. They can't afford to send their kids to college in many instances. They can't afford child care for their little babies. They're worried to death about retirement.” PeopleChildrenLittlesTwoCountryHardProblemCareKidsJobsAmericaThreeSeeingCollegeBabyInstanceWorriedRetirementChild CareTwo Jobs Author:Bernie Sanders
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!” PeopleIfsHas BeensStillsDifferentAmericaGirlThreeAttitudeClearOur LivesCuttingBabyCatholicAppearanceImpressionAfrican AmericanInternalsCapabilityThree TimesClassification Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE SENCE OF HUMOR I HAVE. ALL THE STUFF I TALK ABOUT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHURCH GROUPS HOWEVER WAL-MART AINT SUNDAY SCHOOL. AS LONG AS I DIDNT USE OFFENSIVE FOUL LANGUAGE I KNEW ID BE FINE. WAL-MART GETS IT, THATS WHY THEY BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION. BESIDES ITS THERE STORE THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THATS AMERICA BABY!” WantYearsMayLongUseSchoolAmericaLanguageStuffCan DoChurchLaughingGroupsBabyFineJokesCompetitionBlowStoresAppropriateSundayOffensiveFoulSunday SchoolFoul Language Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.” PeopleShouldKindI CanWarStatesGovernmentAmericaReligionFightingBlackChurchReligiousWhiteUnitedLeaderChristianityUnited StatesBabyConstitutionIsraelSeparationBrownBlack PeopleFoundersShould ISecularUnited States Of AmericaFoundingBankingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersReligious FreedomWar On DrugsFounding Fathers ChristianState GovernmentZionistUs Founding FathersBigotsBearing ArmsFounding Fathers ReligionSeparation Between Church And StateFounding Fathers ReligiousChristian ChurchConstitution Of The United StatesFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaFounding Fathers AtheistDeismBlack WhiteBanking SystemChristianity From Founding FathersChristian AtheistReligion ChristianChristian FatherUnited States GovernmentChristian HeritageUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers DemocracyReligion And GovernmentChristian RightGod DelusionAmendment 1Pledge Of AllegianceDeistGod And CountryReligious BigotryGod We TrustSecular SocietyHate ReligionChristianity And Government Author:Louis Farrakhan
“It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.” IfsWantAmericaMotherCitiesDangerousBabyFitSolutionsAngryPrisonInnocentAbortionWombGangInner CityDangerous PlacesInnocent Life Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.” WantAmericaWishWaterWorryGrowingMiddleBabyLovelyBeachVillageRetirementFewerMexicoWashingMiddle AgedPristineSan DiegoTurds Author:Richard Rodriguez
“My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.” WorldCountryStatesAmericaUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesThis WorldBabyBirthDiedPregnancyMy SisterMore MoneyOther CountriesUnited States Of America Author:Robin Lim
“I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.” PeopleAmericaBornBabyTerrorMexico Author:Andrew Breitbart
“There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.” FirstsFeelingsAmericaCultureCommonHappenedTelevisionCommunicationBabyGrewGrew UpTeenagerHypothesisFrequencyPhoenixMtvCarrierPopular MusicCommon CultureDes MoinesBaby Boom Author:Howard Rheingold
“How about mandated parental leave.? Oh, okay. Less than 20% of companies in America have it. Most of them think about it as an expense. What's the bigger expense? The bigger expense occurs if women have babies and don't come back to work.” IfsThinkingAmericaCompanyBabyOkayBiggerExpensesParentalBack To Work Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.” ThinkingChildrenAmericaChallengesBabyOur ChildrenRetiringEntitlementBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Richard Lamm
“'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.” ReasonShowsAmericaTalkingMorningAirBabyAcknowledgePregnancyPregnantMy BabyPumpkinGood Morning America Author:Jane Pauley
“It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.” ThinkingWellsAmericaReadingLosesMoneyBabyNewsWeightRealisticUnfairChefTrainersLose WeightWorking Women Author:Rachel Zoe
“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.” NeedsCountryBigsAmericaBabyEatingMachinesSightLandscapeSmokingStaticHaving A BabyLumber Book:Snow Crash Source: Snow Crash
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” KnowsCareAmericaPoliticalEvilParentLove IsLevelsFrontsBabyJudgmentAnd LoveWorthyProductivityHealth CareSubjectiveObamacareBureaucratsSyndromesMy BabyEuthanasiaDown Syndrome Author:Sarah Palin
“I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.” WantAmericaAirJourneyTeamBabyHorseRaisesSouthFallenCoveredFistsGoatsPumpsMy BabyWagonsSouth America Author:Laurie Halse Anderson