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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.
The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.
Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.
The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.
Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.
While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.
My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
We have jobs that are in the pipeline, and I deal with all the executives, the big ones and the small ones. I have really gotten to know America.
I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.
I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.
I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.
The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.