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The greatest thing about this man is he’s steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday — no matter what happened Tuesday.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (April 2006)
- Clever Jabs
- Presidency
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
- Politics
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent.
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Cue the Green God, Ted” (1991).
- Journalism
As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997
- Power
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!
Ethan Allen1738–1789A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen’s Captivity (1779), on demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga (10 May 1775)
- War & Peace
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
- Change
Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector.
Colin Powell1937–2021MTV Global Discussion (14 February 2002).
The Executive, except for recommendation and veto, has no legislative power.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (concurring), at 654-655.
- Government
- Presidency
To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation.
Andrew Jackson1767–1845Proclamation regarding the Nullification Ordinance of South Carolina (10 December 1832)
The Constitution requires an adoption in toto, and for ever.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Alexander Hamilton (1788)
- Government
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
- Money
The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by a reasonable compact in civil society.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Catharine Macaulay Graham (1790)
- Government
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968), Part II: “Rallying Round the Flag”
Remember always that the cause of the United States is the cause of human nature.
William H. Seward1801–1872Letter to Charles F. Adams (1863), as quoted in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 2, p. 150.