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Edward Kennedy Politician
America

"I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls."

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Edward Kennedy Politician
America

"The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."

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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
America

"The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down."

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Eli Roth Filmmaker
America

"The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
America

"I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?"

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
America

"When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
America

"Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime."

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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
America

"It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
America

"The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."

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Ester Dean Songwriter, Singer
America

"The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is."

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
America

"The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)"

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