#erica

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#audience #been #composers #every #first

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#american #american music #been #diversity #importance

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#believe #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence #corporate

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#elected #elected officials #failed #federal #federal government

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace. ↗

— Marjorie Watts

#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

So this is America. They must be out of their minds. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#minds #must #out #their

At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that's been given to me by the Republican Party and, I think, the American people, and that's to fire Nancy Pelosi. ↗

— Michael Steele

#american people #been #day #end #end of the day

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#care #essence #everything #government #health