America Quotes
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It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.
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My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.
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I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.
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We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.
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In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
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Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.
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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
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America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
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By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
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I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
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This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.
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All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.
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I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.
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The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
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Tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.
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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
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I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from 'The Simpsons.' I was nervous because I wasn't sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.
