"Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense."
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"It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections"
"Let's move forward and fix America's problems."
"There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country."
"I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution."
"Look at the potential for America. Look at the direction we've been going. Look at the direction we need to go."
"There are various different kinds of conservatives and different kinds of Republicans. We all come from different corners of our party. The key here is not only to unify and merge these approaches, but to also invite everyone else in America to get us focused on our solutions."
"We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union."
"Let's show America our best and nothing less!"
"Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges."
"I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination."
"Who cares what Donald Trump tweeted, you know, on some Thursday night, if we fix America's big problems?"
"There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution."
"There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia."
"More American companies are getting bought by foreign firms or they`re becoming foreign firms or they`re outsourcing. Right now the tax code says if you want to make something in another country and re-import it back into America, go ahead and do that. We don`t want to incentivize that."
"We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth."
"Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism."
"We need to upgrade and modernize America`s infrastructure.Our budget is going to have to figure out how to balance those priorities and pay for it and our big goal is to leverage the private sector dollars as much as possible so that the public taxpayer isn`t paying for all of this."
"I think the identity politics that have been played, particularly the class-warfare version of identity politics that has been played, has put America into a class-based society - more so than at any point in my lifetime."
"You have to remember, eight out of 10 businesses in America, they file their business as individuals, as people."