#erica

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean. ↗

— Philip Glass

#great #happy #i #know #maybe

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. ↗

— Elinor Glyn

#best #divorced #easily #generous #husbands

Is there decency left in American politics? ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american politics #decency #left #politics

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#country #drinking #driving #highways #how

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american #american jobs #bush #bush administration #congress

While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#aided #al #ally #also #american

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#because #been #convention #crimes #escape

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#american indians #autonomy #country #even #fey