Jerry Springer Quotes
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
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Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
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The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.
