“The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.” ThinkingNeedsStatesNextPresidentUnitedUnited StatesOne ThingFiguresChiefsCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Lindsey Graham
“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.” PeopleMenGivingStatesForceDifferencesUnitedPayUnited StatesAtheismCrimeFiguresAmountMouthsSlaveBritishPositive AtheismDebtTricksCunningRobbersPistols Author:Anne Royall
“Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesFiguresKingsLuther Author:Taylor Branch
“Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.” StatesRememberUnitedViewsPrinciplesUnited StatesVirtueFiguresEnlightenmentLaborDependenceFranklinGermsAbominationSubservience Author:Noam Chomsky
“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.” PeopleIdeasRealStatesGovernmentMightTogetherFormGrowthCommunityLevelsUnitedCompanyUnited StatesEconomyGroupsLandFiguresDevelopmentShapesBenefitsPropertyIncomeLocalsManagersCorporateCorporationsFixedOwnersConstructionGrainNeverthelessDominantEstatesPrivilegedFederal GovernmentCoalitionsLocal GovernmentAgribusiness Author:G. William Domhoff
“I hate this idea that we, as Americans, are going to say we're going to have a sense at the border, someplace else, that - to figure out whether or not Muslims can come to the United States.” IdeasStatesHateUnitedUnited StatesFiguresI HateBorders Author:Dalia Mogahed