Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them. – Jack Kingston
I don’t hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don’t like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live. – James Salter
Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers. – Ben Bernanke
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid ’80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. – Bruce Springsteen
Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community. – Anthony Carmona
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch
A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there’s always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn’t be paid very much for preparing food. It’s uniformity and a lack of connection. – Alice Waters
People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are. – Azim Premji
Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people’s beliefs. – Alcee Hastings
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. – Carol P. Christ
On my parents’ scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. – Amos Oz
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. – Ai Weiwei
The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined. – Ahmed Zewail
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose ‘family values’ agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin. – Barton Gellman
I’ve dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. – Brian De Palma
Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d’oeuvre. – Avigdor Lieberman
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values. – Al Franken
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. – Christopher Lasch
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. – Brian Eno
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. – Al Gore
You talk about the values that you have whether they’re in favor or not in favor. That’s how you lead. The reality is, we’re losing more and more elections. – Artur Davis
The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. – Bill Shuster
I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values. – Cory Booker
A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U. – Ali Babacan
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell’s classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they’re realistic. That’s what we do. – Bernie Sanders