Jon Meacham Quotes
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.
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Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.
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In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up.
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I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
