#america

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#counted #did #had #passive #today

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#america #everything #forget #let us #repudiation

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#coming #english #feel #hell #here

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Anne Rice

#am #american #american writers #definitely #doubt

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#america #american #american idol #attractive #idol

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid. ↗

— Ann Richards

#america #doubt #down #mind #people

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. ↗

— Ann Richards

#day #days #elect #every #every day

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half