#erica

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#empire #high #price #soul #too

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#cannot #cultural #economic #fear #i

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#american people #become #fact #fairness #fiction

With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#choices #chronic #ever #feed #foods

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America. ↗

— Robert Stone

#aware #before #blow #dog #everybody

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #administration #africa #again #american

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#collected #england #ever #food #money

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. ↗

— Susan George

#america #been #crises #during #elite