#erica

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#allegiance #america #american #civilization #country

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#american #american cinema #art #becoming #cinema

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#admire #american #american writer #essay #finished

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#chicago #city #corrupt #most

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today. ↗

— Randall Terry

#arena #church #does #duty #every

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #children #down #down the road #horrors

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#created #europe #history #philosophy

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#another #because #clearly #determination #failed

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. ↗

— David Axelrod

#average #average american #create #crisis #going

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind