Eric Liu Quotes
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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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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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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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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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.
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I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
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I love barbecue, it's my favorite thing to eat.
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America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
