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What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands' End catalogs that they are not bigots, but, human natu...

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Democracy in America Volume 1

What's the difference between depression and South America? If you really had to, you could conquer South America.

The Depressed Guy's Book of Wisdom

Failure never crosses a victorious mind

Freedom Run: A 100-Day, 3,452-Mile Journey Across America to Benefit Wounded Veterans

Harper: You, the one part of the real world I wasn't allergic to.

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America.

Howard Graham Buffett

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.

Osama bin Laden

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

P. J. O'Rourke

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Peter Shumlin

We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it.

Richard J. Daley

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

Spalding Gray

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

Stephen Kinzer

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

Susana Martinez