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"There is a reason people in America are disappointed and restless. If opportunity seems like it's been slipping away, that's because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help."
"President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America."
"A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it."
"Donald Trump is communicating with people in America who've felt like they have not been listened to."
"What I keep telling people is, getting trade agreements that are good for America is good for everybody."
"Let's take our fight to our opponents with better ideas. Let's get on the offensive and let's stay there. Let's compete in every part of America and turn out at the polls like every last vote matters because it will."
"My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan."
"As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the Statue of Liberty. France on November 13, 2015 fell victims to the worst terror attack in its history."
"We have too many mosques in America."
"As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing."
"America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show."
"I'm not American, but I do have an opinion, and I think that right now, it is what it is, and I think the country needs to come together to say: What is the America we want to create right now? The same thing will happen on television now going forward if we do have a female president. It will be something that will be discussed."
"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism."
"I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States."
"The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."
"America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."
"Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity."
"I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?"
"In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms."
"Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship."
