American Quotes
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If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
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The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.
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It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.
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Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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The president of the United States, the most radical president in American history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people. He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there's nothing you can do about it.' Now, that's where we are.
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Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
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You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.
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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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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
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I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
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We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.
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There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.
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The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.
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Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
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The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
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The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.
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The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.
