#erica

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american culture #culture #hybrid #hybrids #itself

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#any #anything #had #never #phish

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#part #played #tragedy #which

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account. ↗

— Harold Ford

#america #every #idea #newborn #provide

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. ↗

— Tom Ford

#amazing things #america #gets #happen #things

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. ↗