#erica

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#cities #decide #determination #determine #emergency

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. ↗

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

#action #advanced #america #area #construction

I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#american #american dream #been #believe #born

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us. ↗

— Tim Salmon

#america #ball #country #every #every time

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#america #amity #century #community #concluding

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show. ↗

— Tara Reid

#america #creating #done #girl #i

While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#address #again #american #american people #any

Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#disneyland #simulacra #simulation #life

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it? ↗

— David Riesman

#america #ask #create #fantastic #fraud

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #avoidance #commitment #dream #ending