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"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
"We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America."
"We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with."
"There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics."
"I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten."
"America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation."
"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
"I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society."
"I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain."
"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
"In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?""
"America cultivates best what Germany brought forth."
"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."
"Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that."
"I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing."
"Who goes from America to Africa for medical attention?"
"Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well."
"People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it."
"I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else."
"Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal."
