"America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet."
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"By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past."
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"The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us."
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"America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover."
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"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."
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"Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation."
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"Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined)."
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"The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references."
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"I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike."
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"I'll not be changing, but America will."
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"Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture."
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"You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people."
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"Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare."
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"I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that."
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"Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country."
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"I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law."
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"Manhattan is where America began."
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"I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go."
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"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
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"We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE"
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