#erica

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#bankruptcy #cause #debts #medical

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#china #competitive #currency #deficit #dollar

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#achilles heel #americas #confidence #cultural #heel

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes! ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#any #become #boy #i #just

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#common #common good #day #define #democrats

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american flag #flag #freedom #history #national

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#america #city #crime #design #last

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#beyond #black #carry #citizens #civil