America Quotes
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[People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.
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America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
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It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.
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'What the Republicans have been doing is an insult to America. ...These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.' Questioned, 'Why are you name-calling?' 'I didn't call names, what I said is true.'
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
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America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
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The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
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There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
