American Factory Quotes

#1. I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

Matthew Scully

#2. My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

Koren Zailckas

#3. You punish liars? In my world, we elect them to public office.

Bryan Davis

#4. Denmark is like a big family of people.

Susanne Bier

#5. The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Nina Easton

#6. He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Horace Mann

#7. The orange-red lipstick named "Hibiscus Frenzy" that was produced by a giant American corporation, which Glamora was paid to wear so that every factory and office girl in England and America and possibly Australia who aspired to look like her would buy it, glowed under the sun.

Ilil Arbel

#8. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Peter Drucker

#9. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.

Anonymous

#10. New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

Elizabeth Thornton

#11. Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa

Ban Ki-moon

#12. On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

Tracy Morgan

#13. The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

Lionel Barber

#14. A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person's life.

Sam Harris