This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.