Quotes About American Decline

#1. American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

Noam Chomsky

#2. I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#3. We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Peter Akinola

#4. The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#6. When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

Donald Miller

#7. The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David Popenoe

#8. There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

Jay Parini

#9. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#10. The era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

Richard Heinberg

#11. Boy - before intense anxiety had crushed his chances for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and sent him into the awful mental decline in which he'd been made a vampire.

Anne Rice

#12. I've been to the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.

Dr. Dre

#14. You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man.

Haruki Murakami

#15. If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emerging from the financial impasse.

J.M. Roberts

#16. We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

Marco Rubio

#17. American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.

Greg Gutfeld

#18. The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

Dinesh D'Souza

#19. The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

Paul Volcker

#20. Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Martin Jacques

#21. To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Erma Bombeck

#22. The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

Shashi Tharoor

#23. And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

John Abizaid

#24. In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Thomas E. Mann

#25. I couldn't do that," I say. "It would have been like shooting myself.

Veronica Roth

#26. The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Edward Brooke

#27. Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Ivan Krastev

#28. The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

Dennis Prager

#29. Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun?

Jim Butcher

#30. Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan