- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.
- Citizenship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I let the American people down.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
American public policy is run on a myth.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.
- Nov 07, 2020
No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020