"God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."
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"This dark diction has become America's addiction."
"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
"[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends."
"Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag."
"America is too great for small dreams."
"Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage."
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
"America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it."
"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
"The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America."
"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part."
"America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see."
"The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world."
"One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me."
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
"We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind."
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
"America is a country that would rather talk about race than class."