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“We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.”

World Country Dream America Force Community Vision Alive Journey Willing Stronger Prosperity Our Country Strongest American Dream

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.”

Needs America Past Rich Proud Tradition Determined Bridges I Am Determined

Author:William J. Clinton

“I've thought a lot about what it means to be the President. I also understand an administration is not one person but an administration is dedicated citizens who are called by the President to serve the country, to serve a cause greater than self. And so I've thought about an administration of people who represent all America, but people who understand my compassionate and conservative philosophy.”

People Mean Persons Self Country Philosophy America Causes President Greater Citizens Conservative Administration Compassionate Dedicated

Author:George W. Bush

“We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.”

Want Should Country Enough America Opportunity Community Responsibility Century Track 21st Century Personal Responsibility Right Track

Author:William J. Clinton

“Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.”

America Forget Cities Areas Enterprise Never Forget Inner City Rural Areas

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.”

People Ifs Want Able Jobs America Individual Economy Four Easier Taxes Percent Workers Rate Fifty More Money Small Business

Author:Mitt Romney

“I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.”

Trying Persons Hard America Challenges Welfare Business Person

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.”

People Men America Young Black Race Changed Particular Race In America

Author:Barack Obama

“We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the - the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That's why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure.”

Needs America Energy Nations Technology Virtue Policy Secure New Technology Robust North America Venezuelans

Author:Mitt Romney

“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.”

Thinking World Want Stills America Energy Company Land Promise Innovation Folks Immigration Around The World Google

Author:Barack Obama

“There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We cannot save all the world's children but we can save many of them.”

World Children War America Differences Life And Death Repression Between Life And Death

Author:William J. Clinton

“In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.”

“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.”

Knows America Political Certain Next One Thing Military Regard Logical Latin Elites Latin America Cuban Successors Castro Chavez

Author:Mark Falcoff

“The most important social welfare program in America is a job.”

Important Jobs America Social Program Welfare Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.”

Believe America I Believe Struggle Save Nature

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.”

World Believe America Strong I Believe Strongest Alliances

Author:John F. Kerry

“Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.”

People Ifs Want Heart Country Reason America Economic Example Happenings Tables Our Family Mexico Salt Cents

Author:George W. Bush

“People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.”

People Thinking Want Trying Doe Made Sometimes America President Decision Wrong Things Decisions Made

Author:George W. Bush

“If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.”

Ifs Way Christian America Fit Worship Jew Great Things

Author:George W. Bush

“I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away. And, as a result, America is now bearing this extraordinary burden where we are not as safe as we ought to be.”

Believe Made War America I Believe President Decision Results Policy Ought Safe Extraordinary Burden Foreign Policy Alliances President George W Bush

Author:John F. Kerry

“Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America".”

Ifs World Today America Taxes Benefits Hey American Business

Author:John F. Kerry

“What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.”

Men Needs America Pay Equal Raises Dollars Cents Minimum Minimum Wage Equal Pay

Author:John F. Kerry

“The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.”

People Trying Stills Country Facts Action America Views Effort Color Discrimination Our Country Reach Out Mistaken Respecting Others Affirmative Action Affirmative

Author:John F. Kerry

“The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.”

People Way Mean America Policy Keys Majority Come Up Right Way Infrastructure Key Things

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.”

Years America Adults Hip Hop Hips Hops Barriers Urban Vocal Shattered Cords American Society Vocal Cords Vox Populi

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”

Knows America Three Four Generations Built Immigrants Three Generations Four Generations

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.”

Ifs Thinking Art Character Reality America Humanity Television Genius Deny Globes Implications Inference American Television

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.”

People Want Should America Decision Borders

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.”

Needs Mean Government America President Successful Essence Being Successful Our Future Tied

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.”

Way Wells Long Country Philosophy Whole America Belief Known Promise Approach Constant Improvement Improving Long Way Constant Improvement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”

Knows Firsts Long America Black President Effort Race Struggle Highest Pages Finished Despite Chapters Best Effort

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.”

States America President United United States Focus Als Afghanistan United States Of America Taliban

Author:Colin Powell

“Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.”

America Young Grows Watches Growing Up Tvs Female

Author:Lauryn Hill

“And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.”

Thinking America Black White Rooms Color Agree Blind Native Racist Native American Asian Latino

Author:Newt Gingrich

“[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.”

Ifs World Feels Made Said America Nations Sea Particular Speech Sorry Propaganda League Shirts Outcomes Aspiration Pawns Naval League Of Nations Harding

Author:David Lloyd George

“The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day.”

People America Hours Seven

Author:Dan Buettner

“Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.”

“America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.”

“I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.”

Looks America Felt Car Ashamed Engineers Revolt Like Something Stylist Submarines Airships

Author:Alec Issigonis

“I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.”

People Way Looks Different Soul America Fairs Dirty Different Ways Description Humanist Good Will Fundamentalist Dirty Words

Author:Edward Kennedy

“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.”

“Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.”

Ifs Should Believe Humans America Attitude Policy Israel Protection Iran Frightened Denied Foreign Policy Cornerstones Believe In Allah

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”

America Wealth Aristocracy

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.”

World Believe America I Believe Retreat

Author:Chuck Hagel

“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.”

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

“It's time for America to get right.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.”

Years America Joy Black White Promise Jazz Reserves Seventies Tempted Jazz Music Lilies

Author:John Clellon Holmes

“America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.”

America Literature Given Wonder Years

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?”

Thinking May War Country America Force Special Exercise Soldier Terror Shock Empires Globes Imperialism War On Terror Legion Special Forces

Book:Empire Lite

Source: Empire Lite

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