Remaking America Quotes

#1. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.b

Barack Obama

#2. We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.

Barack Obama

#3. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#4. Every wound I had was a light that either blinded me or helped me to see clearly.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

Leland Gregory

#6. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.

Billy Graham

#7. There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

Madhur Mittal

#8. There's no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

Joyce Meyer

#9. If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit.

Moxie Will

#10. It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

Chris Kraus

#11. I don't think any extremism is rational.

Marcia Gay Harden

#12. Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

Nelson Mandela

#13. Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

#14. Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software anyway. To me, spreadsheets was what I did on Saturday mornings after washing my bed linen.

Kate Collins

#15. Mother Theresa always said, Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

Shane Claiborne

#16. I wasn't cute or passive enough to be "femme," and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be "butch." I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.

Audre Lorde

#17. I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Taylor Swift

#18. In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

Dinesh D'Souza

#19. Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

Sara Genn