America Quotes
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For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests.
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The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.
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I am not going to let anyone into America who is not vetted, who we do not have confidence in. But I am not going to slam the door on women and children.
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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.
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America's brightest minds are charting a course to a clean energy future that will provide for our health, safety, and prosperity.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.
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Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
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We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
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You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.
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The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.
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No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.
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America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.
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With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
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America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
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I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
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I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.
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We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
