America Quotes
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What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.
Hillary Clinton
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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.
Ashton Carter
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A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!
George Eiferman
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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Henry Louis Gates
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Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.
Eva Green
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America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
Barack Obama
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I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.
Bob Richardson
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Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.
Hallie Flanagan
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
Bono U2
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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
Richard Lamm
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Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
Richard Neal
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In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.
Barack Obama
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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.
Estelle
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I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.
Hillary Clinton
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There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
Hamilton Holt
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That they are individuals, rugged even, but in fact they are emptied out, isolate, mass men without a mass, although they’re not men, obviously, but boys, perpetual boys, Peter Pans, man-children, since America is adolescence without end, boys without religion on the one hand or a charismatic leader on the other; they don’t even have a father—President Carter!—to kill or a father to tell them to kill the Jew; they have no Jew; they are libidinally driven to mass surrender without anything to surrender to; they don’t even believe in money or in science, or those beliefs are insufficient; their country has fought and lost its last real war; in a word, they are overfed; in a word, they are starving. These kids, Klaus said, just need a good whipping and some physical labor; these kids, Klaus also said, are undergoing a profound archaic regression.
Ben Lerner
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America is a country of excess.
Norman Lear
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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.
Sarah Vowell
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The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah
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My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
Heather Brooke
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If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Taxes are an investment in America.
Bill Gates