"Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states."
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"But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track."
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"Remember, America: organization will set you free."
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"We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity."
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"Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well."
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"Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change."
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"Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes."
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"A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights."
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"My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself."
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"I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom."
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"This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away."
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"I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum."
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"I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup."
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"Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's longstanding, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents. I want to build on that relationship."
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"In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer."
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"The biggest disease in North America is busyness."
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"The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side."
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"We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America."
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"That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me."
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"The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since."
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