Quotes with america

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  • Bill Flores It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Isadora Duncan It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Anthony Weiner It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Billy Porter Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Candice Millard Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Walt Disney Laughter is America's most important export.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Herman Melville Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barack Obama Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
    On December 1, 2007, at Heartland Democratic Forum
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Ronald Reagan Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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