Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes

America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

Paul Mooney

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • America
  • Military

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • America
  • Reading
  • Gun

• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Believe
  • America
  • History

• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • America
  • Myself

• Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Live
  • America

• America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • May
  • America
  • Worst

• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Real
  • America

• In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Different
  • America
  • Party

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again!

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• Music for me, it demands full concentration.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Music

• The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • American
  • War

• We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • War

• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • America
  • Soldiers
  • Winners