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

• The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• 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

• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Women
  • Wife

• There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Sexy
  • Orange
  • County

• But at the same time you can't...

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
  • Thoughts

• She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

  

  Alex Shakar
  • Happy
  • Thought
  • Resolve

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

  

  Norman Lear
  • Citizens
  • Americans
  • Consumers