"The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods."
Reconstruction quotes
Reconstruction
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
24 quotes
Lindsey Graham
Politician
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination."
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future."
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