#erica

Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#america #become #boxing #theater #tragic

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#come #get #go #longer #signifies

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. ↗

— Barack Obama

#american #american people #call #different #different names

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. ↗

— Barack Obama

#better #debate #debt #debt limit #deserve

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ↗

— Barack Obama

#beings #common #competition #dignity #exclusive

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #america #another #around #believe

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#available #barack #build #care #child

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#american #american families #anyone #asking #care

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#american #because #class #classes #created

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#any #become #che #elvis #elvis presley