“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.” ImportantFactsAmericaInterestingOpinionPagesDecidedOppositesMethodPrintCleaningEditorialsIgnoring Facts Author:Herbert Bayard Swope
“Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.” PeopleTryingAmericaYoungOppositesApathetic Author:Conor Oberst
“Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.” PeopleWorldWellsWholeShowsTogetherAmericaLawFreedomCompassionLibertySacrificeCrimeExampleElementsOppositesFundamentalsConsistentHeritageTemperRestraintAbiding Author:Gerald R. Ford
“New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.” KindAmericaUsedWealthPrideFameOppositesBiggerTargetNew Zealand Author:Peter Jackson
“The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.” PeopleTwoShowsAmericaSidesInterestingHappeningsProgramOppositesDebateEditingDelayMost InterestingInteresting ThingsRatingSetupsAghast Author:Morgan Neville
“The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.” ThinkingAmericaTurnsPresidentBedOppositesStrongerPushingNailsPushing Back Author:Warren G. Harding
“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.” FirstsCountryStatesAmericaPoliticalSpiritFoundReligiousUnitedCommonAttentionUnited StatesConsequenceAspectOppositesFranceArrivalsGreat Political Book:Democracy In America -- Vol. 1 Source: Democracy In America -- Vol. 1
“Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.” ChildrenStatesHandsGovernmentWould BeAmericaPoliticalParentUnitedPartyUnited StatesPlansNormalOppositesConstitutionCirclesCommunismGuaranteesPolitical PartiesSanctityChildren And ParentsSystems Of GovernmentConstitutional Government Author:David O. McKay
“Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?” HardGovernmentTodayAmericaEconomyWeekGrewTaxesLowsOppositesSavingSavingsShrinking Author:James Cook
“Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.” AmericaSafeDegreesOppositesMethodJimmyCarterFoolproof Author:Ann Coulter
“In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects of America than about Iran. It seems that the popularity of these memoirs is largely due to the fact that, while claiming to do the opposite, they regularly reinforce the dominant representations of Iran in America by constructing an exotic, backward, and barbaric Iran principally based on U.S. archives.” FactsSeemsAmericaCertainOpinionAspectOppositesDuesMemoirIranPopularityRepresentationDominantGrossExoticDistortionArchivesBarbaric Author:Mohammad Marandi
“Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction.” YearsKindAmericaSuccessfulEuropeProgramOppositesWesternDevelopingThrownLatinDestroyingPullingImperialismLatin AmericaDevastatedWestern Europe Author:Noam Chomsky
“I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.” WarCountryAmericaFightingSawsPiecesHappenedOppositesDictatorTubes Author:Madeleine Albright
“Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” PeopleMenI CanBookIdeasShowsTodayAmericaRolesGreaterModelsOppositesLaysLifestyleLiftsRole ModelsSelflessnessAmerica TodayGreater Love Author:Marcus Luttrell
“Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.” PeopleWorldYearsRealSometimesWould BeAmericaGuyWishChanceOppositesHockeyReal FriendsNhlNo MoneyCzechoslovakia Author:Jaromir Jagr
“Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.” CharacterProblemAmericaHealingTearsBuildingFootballInspireLaughterOppositesWitMake SenseDiscussionSubstitutesGangSympatheticBeing FunnyBuilding Character Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.” IfsThinkingTryingCareAmericaValuesCan DoCommunityEnvironmentMovementBirdOppositesEnvironmentalFishesTake CareArguingPatrioticRecognizingInfrastructureOur CommunityUncoolMost Patriotic Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.