Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party."
Jefferson Davis
Politician, Military Leader
"African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing."
Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States."
Barack Obama
Politician
"I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed."
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"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media."
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"Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
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"...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so."
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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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"The United States should get rid of its militias."
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"The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel.""
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"We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing."
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"There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice."
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"The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country."
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"The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule."
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"I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression."
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"What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe."
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"An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans."
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"First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home."
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"If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace."
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"The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them."
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"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."
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"Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards."
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"I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."
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"He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon."
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