Harvey Gantt Quotes
Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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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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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.
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America's real national security interest in the region is protecting our friend Israel.
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It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
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It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.
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I'm not much involved in sports, and I don't play, either.
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You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!
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Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.
