Jim Mattis Quotes

There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

The left has lost the common touch.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

I will never be able to break the hold that America has on me.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an act of passion, not of policy.

I consider the Birch Society futile, because they are not for capitalism but merely against communism ... I gather they believe that the disastrous state of today's world is caused by a communist conspiracy. This is childishly naive and superficial. No country can be destroyed by a mere conspiracy, it can be destroyed only by ideas.

Our country is too big for union, too sordid for patriotism, too democratic for liberty.

Everything changes.... Social life changes, and with it the "national question" changes, too. At different periods different classes enter the arena, and each class has its own view of the "national question." Consequently, in different periods the "national question" serves different interests and assumes different shades, according to which class raises it, and when.

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.