#erica

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance. ↗

— Ron Kind

#back #back up #believe #coming #his

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#based #believe #freedom #human #human rights

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history. ↗

— Rodney King

#american history #comfortable #history #i #painful

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#american public #ending #happy #happy ending #public

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#barack #barack obama #been #families #hard

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