"I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility."
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"Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American."
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"In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is."
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"Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines."
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"Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July."
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"We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."
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"Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music."
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"To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood."
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"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."
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"To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped."
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"I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical."
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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators."
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"You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart."
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"We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else."
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"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."
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"Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."
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