American Quotes
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Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.
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I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.
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I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.
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Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
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The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.
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The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
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Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
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Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
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The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a prime example. Even though Obama KNEW - from the moment of the assault - that it was a TERRORIST attack, he didn't let the American people know.
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What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
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College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
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The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.
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Shared Sino-American global security goals would not mean that one partner dictates to the other. U.S.-PRC differences will persist, and on the Asian regional level they can even be a source of mutual irritation. Nor should it mean that we ignore the basic differences between our political systems and values.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
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No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
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I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
