“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.” WorldWellsStatesHelpingHappensUnitedKnownUnited StatesCatastropheWell Known Author:Morgan Freeman
“Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.” BelieveStatesHappensGrowsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpBrits Author:Ricky Gervais
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.” IfsThinkingBelieveHappensUnited StatesTroubleTerribleDisaster Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.” IfsMenGivingFeelsStatesHappensTodayAmericaValuesIndividualUnited StatesDemocracyDangerCitizensImportanceResponsibleMajorityActiveNewspapersGravesCeaseAdvertisingAgentsRepublicPublicityFascistsAmerica Today Author:May Sarton
“In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.” PeopleStatesBigsHappensWinningUnitedUnited StatesElection Author:George Clooney