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"Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like."
"The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America."
"I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America."
"Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside."
"America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million."
"If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out."
"The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty."
"But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?"
"Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower."
"I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America."
"I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live."
"This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person."
"This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard."
"What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors."
"It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first."
"European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America."
"When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks."
"We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom."
"When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally."
"The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes."
