#erica

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#american #defeat #different #doubt #failed

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#america #find #going #honest #love

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies. ↗

— Tory Burch

#american companies #annual #billion #buying #companies

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#american life #crime #fabric #fear #life

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#bone #earth #forms #longest #skeleton

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years. ↗

— David Wain

#audience #cable #course #disappointment #etc

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#native-american #ojibwe #prophesy #treaty #money

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. ↗

— Redd Foxx

#convinced #i #know #lot #middle-class