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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Alan Cumming

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Anna Eshoo

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Annette Funicello

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Andrew Jackson

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

Grover Norquist

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

Chris Van Allsburg

From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

Xavier Niel

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

Susana Martinez

I believe Americans have a strong work ethic.

Tim Scott

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

Zoe Saldana

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Phyllis Schlafly

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endo...

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

i have been told many times by family, friends, colleagues and strangers that I, a black African Muslim lesbian, am not included in this vision; that my dreams are a reflection of my upbringing in a decadent, amoral Western society that has corrupted...

Fairytales for Lost Children

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; ...

The Closing of the American Mind

The early Mormons were even less concerned about ministerial training. On several occasions, a man heard a discourse, submitted to baptism and confirmation, received a call to priesthood, and was sent on a mission - all on the same day. Canadian Samu...

The Democratization of American Christianity

And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent me an essay he wrote, a few years after col...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just l...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off ...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

When the paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are hig...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think...

Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher