Quotes with america

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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean Baudrillard What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Buzz Aldrin 'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bobby Seale A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Brad Feld A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Camille Paglia Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
    Speech, 11-01-1989
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Bryson All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Adam Schiff Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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