"There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry."
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"I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?"
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"If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are."
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"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior."
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"Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian."
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"The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America."
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"Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers."
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"Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America."
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"America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives."
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"There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back."
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"The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form."
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"You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives."
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"There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America."
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"America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it."
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"And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit."
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"There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind."
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"No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion."
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"I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood."
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"Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it."
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"America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing."
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