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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American c...

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being...

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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better w...

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The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced ba...

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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real ...

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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents...

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Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders t...

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I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, tha...

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I have to return some videotapes

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that...

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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is...

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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by th...

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar...

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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wise...

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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been ...

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Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the Am...

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Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power....

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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing...

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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our ...

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If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our ...

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But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The ...

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There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy b...

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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States ...

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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands ...

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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to...

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He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being pre...

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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made enti...

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There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness...

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Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectua...

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American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea over...

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It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or ...

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Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit Ameri...

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The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means...

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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real peop...

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Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the ...

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To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to ...

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or...

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...

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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...

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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case ...

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I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American histor...

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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

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Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story re...

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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark f...

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The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will n...

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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...

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The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are ...

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Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs,...

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You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty...

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment ca...

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The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, fre...

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The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis ...

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As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...

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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest to...

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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was ...

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I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy i...

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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...

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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belie...

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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a ve...

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Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in...

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Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t...

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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. T...

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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient lite...

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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...

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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purs...

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American politics is always an open competition.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next day...

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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...

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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that the...

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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chan...

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In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're hap...

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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't...

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