American Quotes
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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.
Martin O'Malley
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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
Ana Navarro
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I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.
Peter Abrahams
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We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
Alex Pareene
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I love my heritage. I'm very proud of being Cuban. But I clearly understand that I am an American first.
Carlos Beruff
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How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya Angelou
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The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.
John Katzman
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As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
Sean Duffy
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'Driving is boring,' Rabbit pontificates, 'but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.'
John Updike
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Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
Jordan Klepper
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Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.
Jamie Dimon
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I used to be Irish Catholic; Now I'm an American. You know, you grow.
George Carlin
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The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
John Garamendi
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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.
John McCain
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The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.
Jared Polis
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My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me.
Andrea Navedo
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While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.
Jared Cohen
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What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.
Lynn Westmoreland
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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
Len Wein
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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
Johan Huizinga
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Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.
David Pratt
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The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.
Kimberly Caldwell
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I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
Jake Epstein
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It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.
William H. Calvin