#american

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#american family #book #destroyed #family #had

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#american #american people #bush #bush administration #chasm

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#american revolution #beginning #revolution

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. ↗

— Steve Winwood

#american #appetite #british #could #discipline

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#american music #culture #here #like #music

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. ↗