America Today Quotes - Page 2

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Ronald Reagan

Marijuana, America, Drug

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It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.

Ravi Zacharias

Christian, Philosophy, Character

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The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

John W. Gardner

Life, Believe, Hard Work

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If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

Fareed Zakaria

Reality, Thinking, America

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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

R. C. Sproul

America, United States, Doctrine

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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Michael Pollan

Yield, Turkeys, America

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Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

Frank Lloyd Wright

America, Blind Spots, Today

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In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Brit Hume

Taken, America, Literature

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The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

Henry Kravis

America, Today, Opinion

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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Jesse Jackson

America, Issues, Rights

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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education, America, Survival

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Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Ann Coulter

America, Names, Political

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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

William J. Clinton

Jobs, America, Energy

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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

Thomas Friedman

America, Bills, Today

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Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Marcus Luttrell

Book, Men, Opposites

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The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security.

Shirin Neshat

America, Iran, Ideas

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Andrew Sarris

America, Avant Garde, Today

"Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

Eddie Mathews

Games, America, Today

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I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

Bob Ney

Country, Law, America

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The greatest threat facing America today
is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government,
marked by shameless deficit spending and
Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
It is this one-two punch -
Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow,
and the Fed printing money to make up the difference -
that threatens to impoverish us by further
destroying the value of our dollars.

Ron Paul

America, Government, Printing Money

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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Stewart Udall

Nature, Land, America

Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Paul Brooks

Land, America, Environmental

Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.

Randy Alcorn

Children, Rights, America

Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.97, Multnomah

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So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

Robin Hayes

Dream, America, People

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The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

Malcolm X

Men, America, Doctors

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