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"Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy."
"I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan."
"I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual."
"This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct."
"America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics."
"America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that."
"I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage."
"... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others."
"America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul."
"Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial."
"Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me."
"We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk."
"My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us."
"Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see."
"[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference."
"No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior."
"Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? ... I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world... it's the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food's good."
"Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us."
"If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations."
"If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones."
