#erica

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#feet #hysterical #i #really #six

America needs rebooting. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#needs

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

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked. ↗

— Brian Eno

#american public #any #constantly #i #i think

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attacks #clear #events #exploited #now

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american culture #culture #hybrid #hybrids #itself