Henry Adams and the Making of America,

You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing yourself, a noteworthy education or, for that matter, a basic grasp of science.But...

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

He can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.The marathon is a form of...

Oh, great for the state. Great for America, but this would have been a terrible blow to our state economically.

If it hadn’t been for Henry Ford’s drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn’t have a middle class today,

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd...

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century...

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market – the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d...

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

But in America, if you’re an atheist, you lose.

The best ones – Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It’s not a thing he’s selling here. It’s real. He knows it’s real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right?...

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe’s development.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants...

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own...

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple;...

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

[Jim Padilla, president and Chief Operating Officer, said the Company’s focus on the turnaround in North America is an indication of leadership priorities.] Our people have made excellent progress in South America, stabilized Europe and...

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

I think there’s a lot of anesthesia being – that’s been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an...

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged...

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

I feel I am one of the best three skaters in America.

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to...

I saw ‘Captain America’ in 3D. It’s cool. I liked the beginning. It’s a really good setup.

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship...

We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing,

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There’s been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I’m more popular...

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is...

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)”How do you find America?””Turn left at Greenland.

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

Dat’s what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: ‘America, the land of milk and honey.’ Bot they never tell you the milk’s gone sour and the honey’s stolen.

American dream,a spouse,a brace of children,cuddly pets,coffee-table books,rusted skeleton keys,plastic cauliflower bags,business cards of business-card printers,a mound of used airmail envelopes. Old house on moving day,all echoes and loneliness.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’ I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle...

America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve...

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical...

New Rule: America has every right ot bitch about gas prices suddenly shooting up. How could we have known? Oh, wait, there was that teensy, tiny thing about being warned constantly over the last forty...

I remember sitting in school and thinking, ‘I don’t know why I’m here, because I know I’m going to act and I know I’m going to America.’

America needs NATO in this situation. It will take pressure off America and the idea that America is perpetuating a war against Muslim nations, and that it’s always America on the front lines.

The balance of power is not being maintained in America today, … The Supreme Court is interpreting the Constitution in derogation of congressional authority.

It’s a numbers game. This isn’t about just one company. This is about a health care crisis in America. We’re doing what we can to try and make coverage affordable.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has...