Ivan Krastev Quotes

America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

Ivan Krastev

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• 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

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • America
  • Help

• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Men
  • America
  • Rest

• From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religion

• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • America
  • Political
  • Stop

• Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• 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

• I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

  

  Nas
  • America
  • Help
  • Government

• Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

  

  Ted Deutch
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Trying
  • America
  • Best

• 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

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Mind
  • America
  • Help

• We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Great
  • America

• I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • World
  • America

• It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Work
  • America
  • Stop

• In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • America
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • More
  • Research

• I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Agnostic

• America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

  

  Ivan Krastev
  • America
  • Indebted
  • Polarizing