Quotes About Being Good Americans

#1. When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Steven Pressfield

#2. The United States, the President said, "must be a force for good." Americans focused on "good." Much of the world focused on "force," on being handled.

Ron Suskind

#3. Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.

Irwin Redlener

#4. Because," I said, "the japanese were as responsible as the Germans for turning Americans into a bunch of bankrupt militaristic fuckups - after we'd done such a good job of being sincere war-haters after the First World War.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Marvin Harris

#6. But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.

Rick Santorum