West, Thomas G. The Claremont Institute, The Claremont Institute Blog Writings. [http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.664/pub_detail.asp "Allan Bloom and America"] 1 June 2000. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

The wandering singer has returned home after many conquests in the West....May she cast over us the same spell that she has cast over the Americans.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

Federico Aranda: Are we supposed to fly that close to the mountains?

What I'm asking is whether this is still a country where a peculiar person such as Michael Jackson can get a fair shake and be considered innocent until proven guilty … or is this just a 21st-century American barnyard where we all feel free to turn on the moonwalking rooster … and peck it to death?

Bandura’s findings were particularly important in 1960s America, when lawmakers, broadcasters, and the general public were engaged in serious debate regarding the effects of television violence on the behavior of children.

[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/chaplin_c.html American Masters: Charlie Chaplin] at PBS

I say to America, Europe, and the West: It is in your interests to change your relations and policies regarding the Arab and Islamic nation and the Palestinian cause. Because we are winning, it is in your interests to deal with the victors, not the losers.

My mother would really make me notice the world of women, and in Latin America they have a kind of magic in that they make society function in every kind of intimate way, as well as in the bigger picture.

One can list on the fingers of one hand the truly influential organizational scholars working prior to 1950. They include: Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol, Elton Mayo, and Chester I Barnard. Of these, the two paying most attention to the sociological aspects of organizations were Weber and Barnard.

I am a Bad American is another mass-forwarded internet message often attributed to George Carlin, but was not written by him.

America stands armed with resolution and virtue; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whom she derived her origin. Yet Britain, like an unnatural parent, is ready to plunge her dagger into the bosom of her affectionate offspring.

American Horror Story

The American Medical Association and the Red Cross both condemn force-feeding as a form of torture. And yet, the U.S. government and the United Nations have both force-fed hunger-striking prisoners. The real problem? Most people probably don’t realize how complicated force-feeding is, and how much can go wrong.

Donald Trump poses a clear threat to American democracy, to Canadian sovereignty, and to the international rule of law.

DePauw University News [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17824 "Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize "Charmed Years"]. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed 16 May 2007).