America

“The real way things get done in America is through individual contribution, entrepreneurship, and those individuals contribute in a way that helps the overall society get better. And I think that's, we, we're going to solve things like income inequality that w…”

“To believe that America is a great evil, to believe that the West is not exceptional in its values, even with all of our flaws, is a luxury belief.”

“I think that America as a whole has made a lot of mistakes, but if you look around the world and you look at what the other options are, we are far and away the best choice.”

“Today, the person at the 10th percentile economically in America lives in the same square footage of housing as the person at the 50th percentile in 1980.”

“We turned the keys in America over to bureaucrats and engineers 30 years ago. We, I mean, it's like, we basically pump all of the money and resources and time and affection and energy into bureaucracy, which is massively expanded, and to engineering and tech, …”

“It's only when there's conflict resolution that you need markets or elections or both. And so, it's not just that, you know, America's about capitalism and democracy. In many ways, that's all that's left. Because a lot of the community that's underpinned Ameri…”

“80% of what we spend on health care in America are for chronic diseases, Joe. Diseases that tie directly back into our diet and lifestyle.”

“I think we really are in a golden age area of venture capital where you're right. Only in America could we get venture capital to start an aerospace and defense a company.”

“I think one of the worst things that America ever did was step back from the space program. I think it killed innovation in a way that we would have, you know, accelerated considerably more how we continued it.”

“We have about 20,000 municipal governments in, in America, and they raise about 20% of all government revenue.”

“So I saw the other day that America has the highest percentage of kids that only have one parent households. Are we, we're 23%. Nigeria is about four percent apparently is what the data says, which is amazing to me.”

“We're more allies between our faiths in many ways in America now, where there's a lot of people who don't have faith anymore. It kind of puts us, historically, people would fight over different religions, and it's almost like now we're like more on the same si…”

“And principally because we have great tech coming out of China, India's catching up, but we're at 2030 years away. But if you're looking at coming to solve some of the greatest problems faced by humanity, it is still led by America, America's university system…”

“There's ten million community college students in America each year. It's about a hundred billion dollar market.”

“If you surveyed every other person in the world who is living in America now, what's the one country they would want to live in? What system that they think is the best for their children? They would still choose this system. They wouldn't choose China, Russia…”

“Freedom of religion, as it exists in America, existed in Iran before the revolution.”

“America has always been messy because we're not follow, follow. [2105] Joe Lonsdale: We say no when we push back. [2106] Joe Lonsdale: We say no more. [2106] Ethan Penner: But we're learning to not say no. That's scary.”

“To everyone who's successful in America, you have to acknowledge that a portion of your success Is due to the fact that you were born in America.”

“Joe, in the year 2030. That's six years. Yep. America's gonna be short. 50,000 primary care physicians. 30,000 pediatricians and 30,000 OBGYN. Going to be short, a 110,000 doctors in just those specialties.”

“All of the equipment that you need to manufacture these chips, whether it's foundational or advanced, is basically built in three places. It's built in America, It's built in Netherlands, the company, SML that many have heard about and in Japan”

“The biggest difference between America and Europe today is we allow creative destruction. They try to impede it.”

“And one of the biggest problems in Europe, in private equity business, in acquiring businesses, Is that when you're looking at a business, and you look at the number of people who work there, And often it's twice as many people as you would have doing the same…”

“America has no, it's a big, rich country with a deep distilling tradition, but we've nothing to compete with McAllen, nothing.”

“Once Maduro goes the regime in Cuba will follow. And also The Nicaraguan regime will fall. And for the first time in history, we will have the America's free of communism and dictatorship for the first time in history.”

“Well, I mean, I don't think there is any country in the world like America, where folks from all backgrounds, from all countries can come and can be trusted to go build businesses, Endeavors, social endeavors and just embrace of failure in, in order to go buil…”

“We don't, we'll never have the lowest labor cost, right? Like we can't compete on that, but what we can compete on is efficiency through data.”

“UATX is definitely committed and standing for liberty, standing for debate, standing for free speech, standing for America. We're in the business of building a new elite.”

“We saw through many examples in the past few years that our elites are, in some ways, failing us. We're talking, if we think about COVID, the summer of 2020, if we think about October seventh, and we think about what happened in the past few weeks these are ex…”

“No, no, but an university has a duty, I believe, in especially where we sit here in America, to be an institution that is pro-decivilization, that is trying to uphold the civilization and move the civilization forward. So that's a very opinionated position. Th…”

“We have a number of journalists living in America right now that were critical of the government. And had to leave the country because the whole idea of combating fake news, for example, got into a, you know, if Biden was bad about trying to go into Twitter an…”

“That's the biggest problem we have in America. We have an old system, an old design, and they say, well, you know, to make it better, we just need to put more money there. But if putting more money into something pushes harder, but if you're going in the wrong…”

“Frankly, right now is the largest capex boom in America since when he was a young banker and you were building out all the cable and telecom across the country.”

“If you look at the computer revolution, people would have said that personal computers would have put a lot of secretaries out of work, but in reality, the PC revolution gave birth to the software industry, and it displays three and a half million jobs, but it…”

“It's much better to have that forcing mechanism of hypocrisy because you have good principles than to have no principles that actually force attention with slavery to begin with.”

“What Dr. King was asking is, look, if America is a house, the house is fundamentally good. We're just asking you to let us inside. We're not asking you to change the house. We're not asking you to destroy it and build a new one that the other folks are saying …”