#eric

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#american #american families #american people #because #country

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#american people #budget #decisions #elected #elected officials

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#blessings #country #i #living #much

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. ↗

— Herman Melville

#asleep #critics #five #hardly #several

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#america #assistance #broaden #challenge #development

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#american families #began #boston #every #families

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. ↗

— David Miliband

#american idea #everyone #good #graduates #high

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. ↗

— John Mica

#american #average #average american #concentrating #convert