America Quotes
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During the war, in hundreds of Iliums over America, managers and engineers learned to get along without their men and women, who went to fight. It was the miracle that won the war - production with almost no manpower. In the patois of the north side of the river, it was the know-how that won the war. Democracy owed its life to know-how.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.
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International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
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I was born in Guyana, South America.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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(On Standards & Practices): 'Where are your standards?....Stupid to retarded, is that the level of standards you’re trying to put out to America?'
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But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
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It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
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America is growing and prospering, but our infrastructure is crumbling...
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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It so coincided that Marcos had money. After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold from Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny; America didn't understand him.
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Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
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In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.
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The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.
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I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.
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If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
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I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
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I do care about the direction of America.
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Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.
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Moving to America gave me the opportunity to learn music and fall in love with songwriting.
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America, people will pay to be first unless we do something to stop them. We don't have defenses built in because we haven't been investing in criticism that would help us mount a defense. I
