#stern

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#care #children #china #countries #credit

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#communities #drinking #i #i think #living

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#code #i #i think #important #symbolism

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#end #itself #more #per #pleasure

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#keep #movement #part #pressing #western

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#conquering #destroying #driving #eastern #fundamentalists

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#being #clime #cunning #excel #gifted

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#believes #bring #conservative #continuing #eastern