#eric

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. ↗

— Don McLean

#american #american pie #despairing #hopeful #pie

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe. ↗

— David McCallum

#achieved #america #europe #few #hundred

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#america #any #blames #ceo #door

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american people #argument #being #comfortable

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#holy #how #i #i write #litany

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell ↗

— James Bradley

#courage

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#people #royalty

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#american #cruel #mad #war