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American politics15 quotes
If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. — John Marshall · 1803It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. — George W. Bush · 2001I'm the decider. — George W. Bush · 2006This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base. — George W. Bush · 2004All 15 quotes →American foreign policy5 quotes
It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush · 2005We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom...because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. — George W. Bush · 2005We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. — George W. Bush · 2005All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. — George W. Bush · 2005Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice. — George W. Bush · 2000Vietnam War5 quotes
If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968We still seek no wider war. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion. — Walter Cronkite · 1968Spread of freedom and democracy4 quotes
It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush · 2005We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom...because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. — George W. Bush · 2005We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. — George W. Bush · 2005All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. — George W. Bush · 2005War on Terrorism4 quotes
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush · 2002In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales · 2002We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. — George W. Bush · 2001There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely... My answer is, bring 'em on. — George W. Bush · 2003Iraq War3 quotes
In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. — George W. Bush · 2003There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely... My answer is, bring 'em on. — George W. Bush · 2003This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force. — Tommy Franks · 2003US Constitution3 quotes
We must never forget that it is a Constitution we are expounding. — John Marshall · 1819The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will. — John Marshall · 1821Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional. — John Marshall · 18199-112 quotes
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush · 2002We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. — George W. Bush · 2001America2 quotes
We have a place, all of us, in a long story—a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story—a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. — George W. Bush · 2001We are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and in our own union. We believe that every man must some day be free. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965American character2 quotes
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965We are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and in our own union. We believe that every man must some day be free. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965Art2 quotes
Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005A good collaboration produces universal thinking. — Robert Rauschenberg · 1987Civil rights2 quotes
By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped set America free. My nation's journey toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all. — George W. Bush · 2003We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1963Constitutional theory2 quotes
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty. — John Marshall · 1803Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void. — John Marshall · 1803Freedom2 quotes
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom...because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. — George W. Bush · 2005Media2 quotes
If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968War2 quotes
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. — Tim O'Brien · 1987To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion. — Walter Cronkite · 1968Absurdity of war1 quote
Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965Alcohol1 quote
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. — William S. Burroughs · 1959America and the world1 quote
Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice. — George W. Bush · 2000American Presidency1 quote
I'm the decider. — George W. Bush · 2006American elite1 quote
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them. — C. Wright Mills · 1956American frontier1 quote
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965American history1 quote
We have a place, all of us, in a long story—a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story—a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. — George W. Bush · 2001American ideals1 quote
Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel. — George W. Bush · 2001American progress1 quote
We have a place, all of us, in a long story—a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story—a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. — George W. Bush · 2001Animal cruelty1 quote
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960Art as therapy1 quote
Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005Artist and audience1 quote
Onstage I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin · 1971Artistic process1 quote
A good collaboration produces universal thinking. — Robert Rauschenberg · 1987Axis of evil1 quote
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush · 2002