America Quotes
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From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.
Steven Weber
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We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
Jimmy Carter
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Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.
Bill Clinton
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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.
Barack Obama
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In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
L. Neil Smith
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A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.
Bill Clinton
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The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
Mitch Landrieu
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The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.
Katie Pavlich
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I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
Mike Newell
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
Heather Brooke
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I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.
George C. Wolfe
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In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
Brit Hume
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I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.
Steve Southerland
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I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
William Gibson
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One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
Nat Hentoff
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One big difference I’ve noticed is how class is experienced in both places. Even though America is so class-stratified, the idea that there is a national culture that transcends class is really present. In Iran, despite the revolution and its attempt to eliminate class as a category, there’s now political class. That’s different than social class, but it’s still very much infused with the nuance that comes from a class-stratified place.
Azadeh Moaveni
