"We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive."
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"Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers."
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"There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers."
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"The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.""
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"The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against."
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"In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment."
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"The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress."
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"I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States."
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"Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to."
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"I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States."
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"One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period."
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"Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'"
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"I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker."
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"The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States."
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"What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis."
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"I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war."
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"Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything."
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"The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States."
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"When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!"
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"Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing."
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