#ric

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire. ↗

— Justin Sane

#american empire #bay #bush #close #empire

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#african #blues #concept #every #false

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#america #believe #capitalism #country #everybody

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#creative #international #international language #language #logical

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#cultural #getting #historical #itself #more

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#although #american #american history #attention #body

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority. ↗

— George Lopez

#another #black #come #day #great

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#first #luck #others #out #people

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#best #country #imagine #place #same

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#balance #between #delicate #delicate balance #essence