#eric

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#american #american people #been #buck #definition

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#america #areas #assist #challenge #counseling

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George Will

#america #combines #committee #football #meetings

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

#american #excesses #many #most

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. ↗

— George Will

#affairs #american #american media #fine #his

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. ↗

— George Will

#apple #apple pie #cheese #frozen #pessimism

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#ask #because #body #card #does

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. ↗

— Saul Williams

#african-american community #always #aware #because #been