Quotes About Us

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

Opposing redeployment US and Dutch ambassadors were making more robust action impossible.

when the day deranges us displacing our ennui angel presented under the vaults gather our grief

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.

The climate emergency is and remains the existential crisis of our times and we cannot forget about it because it has not forgotten about us.

There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.

We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.

Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

Sweden endured a potato famine like in Ireland and loads of people emigrated to the US.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Willow heard Graham chuckle just before he took her hand. "What are you doing? she gasped. "They can see us." "I want my intentions clear from the beginning," he said.

She led us along the veranda while the dogs still swarmed around us and opened a door at the end onto a large and pleasant room.

People think they need to be healed, but the truth is much more beautiful. Even a minute is more than we deserve. No one should be anything but dead. Instead we get honey of out rocks. Miracles from nothing. It's easy. We don't need to get better. We're already us. And everything that is, is ours.

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment

Have you ever noticed that the expression "the light of the world" is used to describe the Christ (John 8:12), but that Jesus also applies the same phrase to us? (Matthew 5:14, "You are the light of the world.")