Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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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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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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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
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I think in this life it's important to be kind, be thankful, and always be creative.
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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states - six in Mexico and four in the United States - combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world. Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
