“That of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be viola…”— Thomas Jefferson, xroads.virginia.edu
“This is America, where we unapologetically bastardize other countries' cultures in a gross quest for moral and military supremacy.”— Lorelai Gilmore, amazon.com
“You know what? America is awesome. It's so full of hope. And small towns and big cities. And real people and delicious beverages and hot guys.”— Leslie Knope, amazon.com
“The presidency is a relay race, requiring each of us to do our part to bring the country closer to its highest aspirations.”— Barack Obama, economist.com
“A capitalism shaped by the few and unaccountable to the many is a threat to all. Economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor and growth is broadly based. A world in which 1% of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99% will never be stable.”— Barack Obama, economist.com
“This is the paradox that defines our world today. The world is more prosperous than ever before and yet our societies are marked by uncertainty and unease.”— Barack Obama, economist.com
“Some of the discontent is rooted in legitimate concerns about long-term economic forces. Decades of declining productivity growth and rising inequality have resulted in slower income growth for low- and middle-income families. Globalisation and automation have weakened the position of workers and th…”— Barack Obama, economist.com
“The anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment expressed by some Americans today echoes nativist lurches of the past—the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Know-Nothings of the mid-1800s, the anti-Asian sentiment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and any number o…”— Barack Obama, economist.com
“America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.”— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com
“No society on earth comes close to matching America’s youthful imagination, its liberation of youthful energies, colors, forms, products, and narratives, all of which appeal directly to what is most neotenic or childlike in our nature. That America is comprehensible from the perspectives of all othe…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com
“My overwhelming reaction to 9/11 - I was at home in Los Angeles getting my two children, then ten and 12, ready for school - is inextricably bound up not with what happened on 9/11, but with what happened the next day ... Lines formed at blood banks, billions of dollars were donated to charities and…”— Arianna Huffington, businessinsider.com
“I was on my way back to England, and we were at JFK on the tarmac, and the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right‑hand side of the airplane, you could see the twin towers. You could see one plume of smoke, and then yo…”— Pauly McCartney, businessinsider.com
“As a New Yorker, it's very intense. I've never really spoken about this before but I was in New York on September 11 and I watched the Towers fall with all my girlfriends from the roof of our school. The whole city was covered in ashes.”— Lady GaGa, businessinsider.com
“I left a meeting right after they hit the World Trade Center. I went to my apartment, which looks south, and I watched it out my window. I could see the line of fire across the North Tower. I had my binoculars and a video camera--though I didn't want to video it. I saw a few people jump. Then I saw…”— Robert DeNiro, businessinsider.com
“Every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“How we so fear change, shifting numbers, so cling to old money, archaic language, worn-out tendencies and muddled colonies, that we stall and maw, hem and haw, defend Old Glory like she's more than fabric running with the combination of wars.”— Leah Angstman, amazon.com
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“If Hillary Clinton can satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”— Donald Trump, talkingpointsmemo.com