““Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system trains another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False. United States is in a state of war: undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system.”— Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, bigthink.com
“The United States used to be the best country in the world. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were…”— Aaron Sorkin, Will McAvoy, Jeff Daniels, imdb.com
“I certainly think that America's very schizophrenic, there's no question. I think you see and it is as American as apple pie, you see the conflict between the notion of personal freedom as espoused by the founding fathers and the puritan values that were there before, and that that conflict is, is w…”— Hugh Hefner, nsarchive2.gwu.edu
“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
“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
“In a society like ours, where every man may transmute his private thought into history and destiny by dropping it into the ballot-box, a peculiar responsibility rests upon the individual … For, though during its term of office the government be practically as independent of the popular will as that…”— James Russell Lowell, amazon.com
“In the United States, hopefully, what we’re building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we’re building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, this was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many…”— Barack Obama, vanityfair.com
“The American flag is the most exquisite and artistic of all the banners of all the nations.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“In the past, the United States has sometimes, kind of sardonically, been described as a one-party state: the business party with two factions called Democrats and Republicans. That’s no longer true. It’s still a one-party state, the business party. But it only has one faction. The faction is moderat…”— Noam Chomsky, salon.com
“The United States has the highest level of child poverty of any industrial society, followed by the rest of the English-speaking world.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“Ever since it has been inadvertent brilliance, this country has been one big huge accident, slouching toward perfection.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“While there are few problems in today’s world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.”— Hillary Clinton, amazon.com