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“I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.”

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“I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.”

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“Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.”

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Author:George Pataki

“Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.”

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Author:Donald Pleasence

“The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.”

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Author:Jacques Verges

“I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision.”

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Author:Mark Warkentin

“Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”

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Book:The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People

Source: The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People

“Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.”

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Author:Dorothy Fuldheim

“As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.”

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Author:Irene Khan

“The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.”

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Author:Ted Olson

“I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.”

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Author:Angela Ruggiero

“I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.”

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Author:Jean Shepherd

“Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.”

Source: The Five Thousand Year Leap

“My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.”

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Author:Emanuel Celler

“It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.”

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Author:Chauncey Depew

“America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!”

Source: America is In the Heart: A Personal History

“Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.”

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Author:Brett Hull

“Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.”

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Author:Michael McCaul

“The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.”

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Author:Claudia Jones

“I was definitely honored to be chosen, but I just didn't feel ready to be pitching in big games yet. It was a tough decision. I talked to my wife and my mother. I'm not sure I'm ready to be pitching in front of 40,000 to 50,000 people. I don't think I'd be helping Team USA or the Indians if I hurried up (his training schedule) and got hurt.”

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Author:CC Sabathia

“Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.”

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Author:Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

“President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.”

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Author:Kevin Madden

“Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.”

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Book:The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition

Source: The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition

“If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand.”

“After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.”

“I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.”

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Author:Vicente Fox

“National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.”

“We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.”

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Author:Gail Devers

“I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.”

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Author:Joseph Sobran

“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.”

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Author:Porfirio Diaz

“The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.”

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Author:John Helm

“Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.”

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Author:Katherine Dunn

“After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.”

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Author:Dmitry Rogozin

“Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.”

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Author:John Bruton

“But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue, including projects and initiatives that directly and indirectly support USA Canoe/Kayak's mission. The goal is not to leave, but to create space in order to contribute more to national and international paddle sports objectives.”

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Author:Joe Jacobi

“America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.”

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Author:Andy Borowitz

“Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.”

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Author:Andy Borowitz

“I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.”

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Author:Rima Fakih

“Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come there be more than 50% death from heart and cancer disease alone in a developed nation such as USA?”

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Author:Subodh Gupta

“Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?”

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Author:Ron Paul

“You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough.”

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Author:Paul Washer

“The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.”

“You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.”

Source: A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

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