#eric

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#african americans #am #being #count #discarded

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #build #children #credits #development

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know. ↗

— Lance Ito

#american public #cameras #certain #courtroom #hide

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works. ↗

— Lance Ito

#all day #american #american public #being #day

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#american #american government #clinton #everyone #feel

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#american #black #dignity #i #i am

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game