#mer

Most people call me Mercy. I like it. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#i #like #me #mercy #most

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #breaks #businesses #certainty #confidence

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. ↗

— John McCain

#authors #bill #crosses #desk #famous

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #broke #going #know #medicare

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#live #movie #performer #theatrical

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#atlantic #been #buy #crosses #europeans

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#career #european #hazard #life

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#europe #negative #proof #unfinished #which

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#always #american #among #any #bad