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One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.
There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.
America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.
Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars, and unleashed ISIS across the world.
In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.
I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.
Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.
Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.
Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.
A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.
The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.
I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.
The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.
I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.
Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.
America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.
I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.
Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.
What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.