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“From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.”

America Strong Class Growing Middle Military Building Foundation Barack Bridges Middle Class Carolina Delivering North Carolina Broadband Strong America Building Roads

Author:Bev Perdue

“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.”

“He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!”

“But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'”

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Author:Ted Strickland

“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.”

America Term Community Effort Violence Crime Building Partnership Earnest

Author:Janet Reno

“A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”

States America Church Building Ruins Church And State Puritan Zion

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.”

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Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”

“What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.”

Running America Building Optimism

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.”

Firsts Character Seems America Quality Building Forgiving Block Telling The Truth Building Blocks

Author:Mona Charen

“What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.”

America Quality Building Britain Civics Good Quality Britain And America

Author:Zaha Hadid

“When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.”

Thinking World Kind Done America Cities Building Hatred Accomplished Disheartening

Author:Frank Miller