#american

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american #american politics #ideas #politics #principles

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#age #american #american dream #because #dream

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#foreign-policy #geopolitics #ignorance #populism #intelligence

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#common-sense #offshore-drilling #public-education #united-states #education

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#believe #black #country #dispossessed #i

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) ↗

— Jamie Haden

#life

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#love

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#emotions #emotions-love #palestinians #love

My friends and I live in the American SW because we love it, and love it for its own sake - not merely because it's the last region of the forty-eight states to be buried under asphalt and greed. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#love