American Quotes
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The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
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Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.
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After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.
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California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.
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All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.
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I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.
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I like cable stuff; I really do - 'American Horror Story,' 'American Crime Story.'
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Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.
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With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.
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I'm an all-American girl.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American society-and law enforcement-viewed them: as drunks, ruffians, and criminals. Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.'
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
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It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.
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Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.
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I'm no expert on American politics.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
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The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.
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Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
