#erica

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 year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#audience #been #composers #every #first

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#american #american music #been #diversity #importance

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#believe #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence #corporate

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#asking #benefits #better #congress #deal

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

You could tell that America was gearing up for war. ↗

— Jack Adams

#could #gearing #tell #up #war

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#believe #fulfill #i #i believe #i believe the