#today

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. ↗

— Eric Liu

#greater #how #less #liberty #like

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. ↗

— Eric Liu

#low #our #past #public #system

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest. ↗

— John Lynch

#citizens #clean #deserve #expect #government

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#gone with the wind #happen #how #know #leigh

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#any #building #gone #had #history

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#answer #approach #choosing #ever #first

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#cherish #everything #invites #lives #me

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' ↗

— Bill Maher

#briefings #bush #clinton #color #first