American Quotes
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Mary McCarthy
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan
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I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes.
Linda Chavez
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Abraham Lincoln
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A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.
Phyllis Schlafly
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I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.
Duane Chapman
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North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
Dave Sim
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I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.
Barack Obama
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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
Meghan Markle
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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Philip Caputo
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During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'.
Fred Korematsu
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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
Jim Cooper
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Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand
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The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
J. Edgar Hoover
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I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.
Jenni Rivera
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I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.
Chloe Kim
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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.
Colin Powell
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When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.
Bob Beauprez
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I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
Mary Meeker
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Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.
La'el Collins
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Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.
Bennet Omalu
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa
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Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.
Barack Obama