Quotes of: Captain-america Keyword

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is t...

Sebastian Bach

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

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

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

So Far from God: A Journey to Central America

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other side of the table, rather than one for everyone at the table.

Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether, very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distraction of radio, but for the moment reading remained the people's principle method for filli...

One Summer: America, 1927

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

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

The more sexual partners a woman has had, the more likely it is that she is depressed.

Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

So few American novels have happy endings. Perhaps this is not surprising in a nation whose declaration of independence provides its citizens not with the right to happiness, but the right to its pursuit.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

My impulse now, as then, is to disagree. The majority of people in this country who haunt bookstores, go to readings and book festivals or simply read in the privacy of their homes are not traumatized exiles.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our collective public life.

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

What America Means To Me

A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

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

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

Pete Docter

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

Rudy Giuliani