#america

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#children #foundation #give #global #innovation

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american jobs #data #debate #globalization #jobs

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#affected #american #businesses #consumers #country

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #america #complicated #identifies #identify

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career. ↗

— Eric Liu

#any #arrival #asian #asian american #athletes

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. ↗

— Eric Liu

#china #debate #gain #game #locked

Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting. ↗

— Eric Liu

#always #america #black #bought #centered