“Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.” ThinkingBelieveWellsCountryStatesDoneAmericaI BelieveChallengesGreaterGenerationsGroupsIntegrityTendenciesDisagreePossessedTenacityEntitlementNostalgicWholeheartedly Author:Jon Stewart
“The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.” WorldCountryStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalInterestUnitedEffortUnited StatesTeacherEnlightenmentResourcesPoliceStrikesTendenciesExceptionOther CountriesScopeUndesirable Author:George F. Kennan
“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.” ThinkingWellsMayCountryHelpingHandsNightHouseWhitePolicyNormalCrisisCampaignsTendenciesBrokeWhite HouseAlsForeign PolicyGore Author:David Gergen
“If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.” IfsThinkingCountryRacismTendenciesOppressionNastyAnti-american Author:Rich Lowry
“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.” PeopleWorldShouldLooksCountrySometimesDemocracyRightsSacrificeWestChinaTendenciesEfficientCriticiseShort SightedAuthoritarian Government Author:Ai Weiwei
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” IfsBelieveEndsCountryGovernmentLawChallengesDemocracyDangerousBirthStandingArmyInstitutionsDareTrialsTendenciesOur CountryCorporationsCrushEstablishmentBankingRulingSincerelySplendidDefianceAristocracyIncorporation Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.” ThinkingDoeCountryWould BeMovingSocialCommunityClearExampleWallPeriodsMembersIntellectualConcernHistoricalSlaveOneselfTendenciesComplaintsInteriorsIrresponsibleBerlinIdentificationRunawayIrresponsibilityBerlin Wall Author:Richard Rorty
“I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.” ThinkingDifferentCountryNationsNaturalSpaceInfluenceIncreaseRelationInternationalTendenciesPursueInternational RelationsDifferent Countries Author:Narendra Modi
“See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.” LooksCountryIndiaTendencies Author:Rahul Gandhi
“We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.” WorldMeanCountryBigsBlackMistakeTendenciesDividedBig Mistake Author:Irene Cara