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		The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kacey Musgraves
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I do love country music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kesha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ladyhawke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Beschloss
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Osler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Raja Krishnamoorthi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don’t know how to get the money but if the radar is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid … They cannot take money from a poor country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jakaya Kikwete
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mitch Landrieu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Sedaris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dalia Mogahed
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Dance
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vladimir Putin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Linder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Watson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jon Porter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Schatz