"The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America."
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"The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals."
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"We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free."
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"The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now."
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"I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war."
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"The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive."
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"Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation."
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"I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president."
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"Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent."
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"I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving."
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
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"There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."
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"Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought."
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"There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do."
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"When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything."
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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
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"The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression."
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"Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar."
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"I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?"
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"The glamour of it all! New York! America!"
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