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Author:Bell Hooks

“The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.”

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Author:Mohsen Rezaee

“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.”

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Author:Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

“Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.”

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Author:Salva Kiir Mayardit

“Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.”

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Author:Phil Klay

“Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.”

Thinking Way Made Country Certain Mistake Internet Capitalism Our Country Made A Mistake Separating

Author:Esther Dyson

“I am convinced that a multi-faceted dialogue between Russia and Egypt will continue to deepen and expand for the benefit of the peoples of our countries, for the sake of peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“[Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.”

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Author:Cory Booker

“Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.”

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Author:Tom DeLay

“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy”

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Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain”

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Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to ensure that all our children have the same opportunities in life, alternative language education should stop and English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.”

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Author:Bob Dole

“That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."”

Country Our Country Sentiments Pernicious

Book:Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole

Source: Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole

“The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.”

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Book:The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II

Source: The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II

“Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“I will be laying out in detail, what I think we need to do with our friends and allies in Europe and elsewhere to do a better job of coordinating efforts against the scourge of terrorism. Our country deserves no less because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“Women think about things in a holistic way that's not just so individual. And I'm saying the thing is, is if we had somebody looking after our country that thought about things as a whole, I just feel like it just would be different.”

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Author:Pharrell Williams

“During the current period of health care development in our country, improvement of the management quality is becoming increasingly important. This is due to many processes, including new ones, such as increase in the number of financial resources used to implement the state guarantees program, the need for more efficient spending of funds, rearrangement of cash flows, single-channel financing”

“Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.”

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Author:Martin O'Malley

“I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.”

Country Air Advantage Our Country Air Power

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.”

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Book:Life of Washington

Source: Life of Washington

“We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.”

Firsts Country Growing Security Republican Concern Confusion Our Country Stability

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?”

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Author:Ernest L. Wilkinson

“With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.”

“It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest.”

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Author:Ivica Dacic

“The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.”

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Author:Jane D. Hull

“I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.”

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Author:John McCain

“Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.”

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Book:One good road is enough: essays

Source: One good road is enough: essays

“In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.”

“By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism”

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Author:John Avlon

“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries...I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.”

Want May Country Might Mankind Benefits Resources Our Country Expenses Other Countries Exploitation Degrade Free Country

Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri

“I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.”

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Author:Benigno Aquino III

“The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.”

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Author:Janet Napolitano

“We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.”

Ifs Thinking Important Country Able Past Mistake Study Lessons Essentials Roots Historical Our Country Britain Making Mistakes Lessons Of The Past

Author:Tony Blair

“Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special”

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Author:Peter Ueberroth

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