America Quotes
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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.
W. H. Auden
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Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.
Lloyd Doggett
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Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
John Cornyn
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'I think we should take money from everyone,' I told her, 'regardless of their ability to pay. After all, this is America.'
Joe Bob Briggs
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We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
Van Jones
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Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
Bernie Sanders
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perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
Martha Gellhorn
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I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller
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America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.
Anand Giridharadas
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I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Madeleine Albright
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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
John le Carre
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In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.
John Barrasso
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We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
Paddy Chayefsky
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Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott
