#erica

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world. ↗

— Trent Lott

#cannot #dictators #disdain #forget #granted

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model. ↗

— Lance Loud

#american family #became #family #gay #i

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. ↗

— Mia Love

#because #citizens #day #every #every day

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#american #american people #concepts #convinced #democracy

I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact! ↗

— Tony Visconti

#also #amazingly #available #been #better

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#american #american writer #class #every #fiction

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. ↗

— Ang Lee

#america #care #chan #chinese #chinese culture

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american movies #apply #big #chinese #film-making

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed