Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Hey, it’s the American way.

There is no such thing as society…There are individuals, men and women, and there are families.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.

For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.