"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America."
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"The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance."
"The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people."
"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America."
"I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong."
"Metal is still the biggest music now in America."
"Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?"
"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
"The real death of America will come when everyone is alike."
"No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!"
"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear."
"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"
"There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people."
"America is a lunatic asylum."
"When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out."
"If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins."
"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."