America Quotes
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The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.
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Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
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The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.
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You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men, who grew to be 10,000 strong, was also the organizational foundation for the civil rights movement and all of the gains that were made in the '40s and the '50s. That, and the black church.
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What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.
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Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
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I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.
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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
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Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.
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I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
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It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
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The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.
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I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.
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Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
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Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
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That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
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I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
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Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.
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We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.
