
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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- No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. – Luis Valdez
- The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. – John Updike
- Over the last fifteen months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go. – Barack Obama
- There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration. – John Baker
- I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Economists are generally negligent of their heroes. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Then the shit hit the fan. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale – John Kenneth Galbraith
- United States: the country where liberty is a statue. – Nicanor Parra
- The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. – Phyllis Schlafly
- The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. – William McKinley
- Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States . . . – Katy Evans
- All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. – Thomas Piketty
- Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere. – Thomas Piketty
- Sometimes it feels like we’re all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
- They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. – Mark Twain
- Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses-” QET Jenkins – Kim Welsman
- While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic. – James MacDonald
- While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic. – James MacDonald
- What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. – Audre Lorde
- Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. – Preeti Simran Sethi
- The United States is falling away from the very things that had made it what it was. What it is becoming is something to be feared…. – Adam Bradford
- The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion. – AE Samaan
- The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much. – Adam Rex
- According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Total violent crime in the United States 2013: (Number:1,163,146), (Rate per 100,000: 367.9). – Federal Bureau of Investigation
- The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice. – Warren Eyster
