#erica

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#addiction #america #appearance #asked #connection

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#american #american people #becomes #how #invisible

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#america #called #could #feeling #intense

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#cast #easy #easy way #gangster #get

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#american #american literature #considered #had #literature

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person who tried to jump and every body they pulled from the rubble. And I saw myself as I was never allowed to be, consoled, understood, and loved. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#americans #palestinians #september- #love

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#american people #aware #concentration #fewer #great

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart. ↗

— John Agar

#first #hand #man #put #shake

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#business #i #i do #job #parent