Hard America, Soft America Quotes

“The stubborn resistance to Hardening America's schools helps account for the fact that Americans up to age eighteen live mostly in Soft America, just as most Americans after the age of eighteen live in Hard America.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

“Liberal elites have been the political allies of teachers' unions that have opposed Hardening the public schools--even if...they work to make sure that their own children get a Hard education.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

“Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.”
― Michael Barone, Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future