“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.” PeopleAmericaGivenTermGoneFourCuttingTaxesCongressScalesIncomeReliefTax Cuts Author:Richard Neal
“Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.” CountryReasonAmericaJusticeFourResponsibleBillsDepartmentCountySheriffsDeportationSheriff Joe Arpaio Author:Russell Pearce
“Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!” PeopleYearsStatesAmericaValuesOpportunityPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSupportDemocracyFourPrideBarackFour YearsIntoleranceUnited States Of AmericaAmerican ValuesDemocracy In AmericaOpportunity In America Author:Richard Trumka
“I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.” PeopleFeelsBelieveIdeasCountryHardChristianAmericaPresidentTakenGreaterFourWillingOne DayEqualGods WillFortyEstablishmentEntitledPersecutionPersecuted Author:Jon Stewart
“Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.” WorldYearsAmericaFourYears AgoChaosFour YearsMistakenPerpetrators Author:Vladimir Putin
“Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush".” AmericaWaitingPresidentFourTomorrowFolksFormer Author:Jay Leno
“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.” PeopleIfsWantAbleJobsAmericaIndividualEconomyFourEasierTaxesPercentWorkersRateFiftyMore MoneySmall Business Author:Mitt Romney
“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.” KnowsAmericaThreeFourGenerationsBuiltImmigrantsThree GenerationsFour Generations Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.” RealityAmericaMovingNationsFourPlansMediaBenefitsLowsWheelsGasInternalsBusEnginesElitesLoyalConventionalMultitudesHarshUtopiaTrumpetsHybridCombustionDrivewayToyotaHarsh RealityMileage Author:Brock Yates
“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.” ThinkingMenYearsAmericaSpeakGivenBlackMy OwnResultsFourSeriousExerciseCourtInjusticeJailChicagoFour YearsPeersBehalfInabilityJuryCourt System Author:Bobby Seale
“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?” IfsNeedsFirstsAmericaThreeCasesFourPlayerFootballIndiaManagersSoccerSailChairmanColumbus Author:Claudio Ranieri
“This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.” YearsAmericaFacesPoliticalNextGamesLevelsLeaderClassTakenFourTeamBattleWorshipRedBlueSouthWelcomeSoccerBordersRepublicFour YearsArrogantBananasSoccer Game Author:Justin Raimondo
“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.” WantYearsTwoBookReasonAmericaThreeTermClassFourTeachingLandMiddleMarkTwentiesAimCriticsPassionateDetailsCornersDecadesSoccerExcellentLeagueWheelsMiddle ClassLastingFour YearsGraduatesSheepVividIvyAmerican LifeWeirdnessYaleColumbiaEntiretyIndictmentIvy LeagueStrikersUpper Middle ClassMiddle Class Life Author:Dwight Garner
“My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.” MenBookAmericaFourHeroBasesComicFantasticCaptainsComic BookSpidersMy HeroSpider ManMarvel ComicsFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley
“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.” PeopleNeedsDifferentAmericaChoicesFourWeekMaterialsHundredVarietyMustardDays Of The WeekDeodorantDifferent Day Author:George Carlin
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.” IfsGivingMindWellsCountryHardHappensAmericaThreeLinesPleasureKnownFourPoetHugeCoupleSheepWell KnownOccasionalPuffInhale Author:Michael Longley
“Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.” YearsSaidStatesLastsAmericaSituationFiveFourPercentYears AgoSupremeIslamicFive YearsDepartmentControlledCouncilExtremistMosques Author:Peter King
“A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.” WorldDoeArtCountryAmericaFormFourRocksSacredSpeedSoftwareOther CountriesPizzaDeliveryRock MusicHigh Speed Author:Courtney Love
“I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.” ThinkingKnowsI CanStatesAmericaFilmUnitedCitiesUnited StatesFourNew YorkMonthsLondonParisSan FranciscoBarcelonaGreat Cities Author:Woody Allen
“But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.” ChildrenLittlesAmericaParentDifferencesFourPerspectiveMajorsOur ChildrenAgingPrivilegeYour ChildrenVehicleToysFifteenUnlikelyAging Parents Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.” ImportantAmericaBlackIssuesEnvironmentFiveFourRightsWasteFundamentalsCivil RightsNeighborhoodToxicDumpToxic Waste Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.” WayWarAmericaSexStuffFourDrugHorseMovedHeavyDroppingTrojansTrojan Horse Author:John Lennon
“I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.” SaidEyeWantedAmericaMotherFourHappenedMonthsTennisInjuryGet AwayFrustratedScholarship Author:Boris Kodjoe
“He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.” AmericaFourHigherPoliticianRatingNewts Author:Al Franken
“If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.” PeopleIfsEndsCountryAmericaDiesCoursesHoursHalfFourEuropeBallsEntertainmentWelcomeOur CountrySoccerCollapseEnjoyableBleachers Author:Daniel Tosh
“Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.” YearsMatterHardAmericaActorsOpportunityFourLandNew YorkColorInternetNo Matter WhatProductionsBoardsHoneyMilkFour YearsMilk And Honey Author:Idris Elba
“There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.” YearsMadeAmericaFilmFiveFourHundredTwentiesFiftyAustraliaTwenty FiveMade In America Author:Guy Pearce