Byron Dorgan Quotes

Is there decency left in American politics?

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Men
  • American
  • Perfect

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • America
  • History

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• I'm a perfectionist to a fault.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fault
  • Perfectionist

• My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • American

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • American
  • America

• There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • American
  • Religion

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Work
  • American
  • Single

• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

  

  Ed Markey
  • American
  • Hand
  • President

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • American
  • Literature
  • Witch

• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Accept
  • Someone

• Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Think
  • Famous

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• Is there decency left in American politics?

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • American