Norman Lear Quotes

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

Norman Lear

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• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Sell

• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Citizens
  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Be Careful

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

  

  C. N. Annadurai
  • People
  • Citizens
  • India

• I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Action
  • Stop

• Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Good
  • Political
  • Citizens

• By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Free
  • Taxes

• The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Book
  • American

• To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Loyalty
  • Citizens

• The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Things
  • Citizens

• You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Economy
  • Consumers
  • Consuming

• When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Interest
  • Constitution

• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Liberty
  • Americans
  • Lions

• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Wealth
  • Citizens

• Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Free
  • Citizens
  • Rome

• If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Products
  • Consumers

• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Black
  • Hate
  • Lovers

• If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • Comfortable
  • Foot
  • Bucket

• I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Words
  • Meaning
  • Treat

• I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Citizens
  • Americans
  • Consumers