"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America."
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"Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America."
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"Socialism never took root in America."
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"America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present."
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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."
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"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."
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"You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values."
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"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves."
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"The United States has a system of taxation by confession"
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
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"No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love."
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"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."
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"Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy."
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"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."
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"The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world."
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"I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction."
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"We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?"
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