"What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure."
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"If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate."
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"America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up."
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"In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded."
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"I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it."
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"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
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"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
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"Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is."
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"America is the best half-educated country in the world."
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"The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying."
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"But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society."
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"If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off."
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"America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences."
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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
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"Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy.""
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"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."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America."
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"If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt."
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"All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen."
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