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"I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United states. It has no following and has been disregarded by the american people for many, many years." »Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"In the United states there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes american what it is." »Gertrude Stein
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"The first organization whose atmosphere and attitude will tolerate the use of nanomation technology will be the first organization to swallow its market whole." »Jonar Nader
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"Whoever has inhabited the United states must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other american soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United states of America." »Larry
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"You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position." »Med Jones
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"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." »Joan Baez
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"I was looking for an american symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the american flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of american Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner
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"One difference between French appeasement and american appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United states pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken." »William Safire
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Adams
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"I was born an american I will live an american I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"The quality of american life must keep pace with the quantity of american goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." »John F. Kennedy
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"As long as I am an american citizen and american blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject." »Elija Lovejoy
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"american foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of american influence into generations of democratic peace." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the american civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native american, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the american quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black american in Durham -- both are certain they are the real american." »Maya Angelou
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"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an american and nothing else, or he is not an american at all." »Teddy Roosevelt
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between states regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the states on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"The only reason I made a commercial for american Express was to pay for my american Express bill." »Peter Ustinov
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"What then is the american, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an american." »Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United states, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"The art of government is the organization of idolatry." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I have built my organization upon fear." »Al Capone
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"organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds." »Henry Brooks Adams
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"The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs." »Rowland Evans, Jr.
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