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“If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.”

“For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".”

Ifs Feels Long Said America Culture Ethics Feel Good Creeds

Author:George W. Bush

“I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?”

Ifs Way Want Kind America Stuff Happened Media Example Angry Presses Jew

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.”

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.”

Ifs Should America Worry Bother

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.”

Ifs Thinking America Calling Democrat Woods Orange Rifles Vests

Book:The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.”

“Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.”

“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Wells War Home America Loses Enemy Trouble Return Logic Sight Sake Folks Justification Momentum Back Home

Book:Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“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.”

“Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.”

Ifs Knows Running America Opinion Negative Like Me Regimes Unfortunate Rumor Headlines Waiter

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.”

People Ifs Might America Streets Sells Silver Knives Retail Sheffield

Book:Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.”

Ifs Persons Would Be America Darkness Towns Sat Lancaster

Book:Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Has Beens Country America Past Black Wealth Justice Poor Special Ten Court Lovely Radical Aggressive Black People Unjust Poor People Boast Special Places Lovely Things

Author:Howard Zinn

“If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.”

Ifs Trying Believe America Generations Don't Believe Capability Greatest Generation

Author:Josh McDowell

“I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.”

Ifs Feels Mind America Loses Cups Tea Visitors Cups Of Tea I'm Back

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Children America Millions Gods Will Bless

Author:Rick Santorum

“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.”

People Ifs Thinking America Politician Republican Happenings Ordinary Democrat Active Primaries Faster Behave Minorities Realising Locked Globes Erosion American Power Stags Antlers

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.”

People Ifs Today Together America Political Nations Party Brain Democrat Ridiculous Voting Political Parties

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“One of the great threats to our national security is social cohesion. If people no longer believe that you can start out anywhere and end up at the top successfully in America, that the American dream is part of the past, I think that erodes a sense of belief and confidence in our nation.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Ends Dream America Past Belief Nations Social Security Threat American Dream National Security Cohesion Erode

Author:Joel Klein

“I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

“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.”

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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

“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

“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

“[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

“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

“Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?”

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.”

Ifs Country Today America Beautiful Church Religious White Racism Standing Skins Bigotry Yellow Presbyterians Unification Beautiful Country Religious Bigotry Unification Church

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.”

People Ifs Mean War Country America Remember White Forget Christianity Millions Industry Died Soldier Destroyed Facility Antagonism

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the system we have in place right now is broken. For example, it is completely family based which means that it's based not on what you can do or what talent you have or what merit you bring or what job you could fill, but rather on whether you know someone who already lives here.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

“Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.”

Ifs Believe Ends Country Matter Facts America Behavior Privilege Debt End Times Foreigners Deluded Creditors Irresponsibility

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.”

Ifs Should America Leader Economy International Despite Behave Dependence

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.”

Ifs Knows Men Doe America Courageous Economist Frame Of Reference Courageous Man Von Mises

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America....that's the UN's job.”

Ifs World Jobs America President Imagine

Author:Marco Rubio

“America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.”

Ifs Want Country America Extras Target Bonus Populist Bash

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!”

“If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?”

Ifs Needs Firsts America Three Cases Four Player Football India Managers Soccer Sail Chairman Columbus

Author:Claudio Ranieri

“If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”

Source: Correspondence

“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”

Ifs States Wisdom America Politics Black United Race United States Economy Conditions Revolution Inequality Soil Liberalism Black Race

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."”

“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”

“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.”