America Quotes
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America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare, so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare.
Scott Garrett
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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.
George Packer
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My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.
Merrick Garland
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
Bill Gates
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The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.
Heath Ledger
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It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Caspar Weinberger
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I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
Bill Clinton
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Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.
Nelson Algren
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook
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I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money.
Bill Murray
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Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.
Benjamin Carson
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Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
Graham Coxon
Blur
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All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.
Mordechai Vanunu
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Race remains a significant challenge in America.
Hillary Clinton
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People succeed or fail on the merits in America, not on who they
know or whose reelection campaign they supported. This absolutely
American principle must be reestablished and permanently fortified.
There can be no more “too big to fail.” If you are reckless, greedy,
and arrogant, the American taxpayer should not bail you out.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Georgie’s grandfather had been born in Italy, and lived in America for five years before he got his citizenship papers, at which time he could rightfully be called an Italian-American. In Georgie’s eyes, this was the only time the hyphenate could be used properly. His parents had been born here of Italian-American parents, but this did not make them similarly Italian-Americans, it made them simply Americans.
Ed McBain
