#ric

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#america #cannot #colossal #course #denied

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#america #break #celebrate #face #fun

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. ↗

— William M. Daley

#american businesses #benefits #billion #bring #businesses

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. ↗

— Rick Danko

#american #american dream #apple #bad #barrel

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. ↗

— Eric Davis

#eric #famous #i #just #people

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#american people #cannot #know #our #people

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. ↗

— Patti Davis

#had #i #odd #rivalry #sibling