#erica

When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant. ↗

— Carolyn Custis James

#food #hunger #starving #food

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations. ↗

— William Kirby

#china #chinese #destroy #international #international relations

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ↗

— Philip Knight

#few #making #many #mistakes #too

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#i #myself #never #new #new york

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#am #american #american president #coming #different

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#condition #homelessness #individual #long #nothing

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#consciousness #interests #itself #life #me

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#central #considerations #europe #even #fate

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#america #believe #child #education #equal

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character