#rican

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing. ↗

— Corey Clark

#american idol #come #corporation #dealing #either

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#american #doctors #every #greatest #hospitals

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot. ↗

— George Brett

#american league #bunt #league #lot #national

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#american children #campaign #children #hungry #i

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#american people #amtrak #blatant #congress #cuts

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#cherry #i #necessary #pie #say

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#architects #association #best #building #buildings

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#composers #france #had #hard #hard time