America Quotes
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Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that after the American Revolution, all the old laws remained in effect in the new United States: Some of these laws of "English common law" dated back to 1278, long before America was discovered.
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What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
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What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.
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Everything that happens in America happens in New York.
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One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.
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Greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location.
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I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
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Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
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The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.
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America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.
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Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.
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Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.
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I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
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I do care about the direction of America.
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While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
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The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
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There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
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America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.
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My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.
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We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
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I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
