#america

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. ↗

— Frederic Raphael

#bad #bad ideas #become #courses #else

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#america #companies #energy #forms #fuel

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#bureaucratic #delays #home #home ownership #native

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#america #bring #brought #come #grow

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#did #first #hawk #i #know

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#come #countries #deserves #fast #finally

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #avoidance #commitment #dream #ending

The American Dream is really money. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #dream #money #really

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.' ↗

— Todd Rokita

#anything #deal #down #down the road #economy