"I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least."
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"When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive."
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"Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression."
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"The welfare system in the United States is vile."
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"Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity."
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"In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger."
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"Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life."
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"All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries."
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"Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States."
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"In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality."
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"I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts."
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"There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist."
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"The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change."
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"I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States."
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"I think that asserting that former President Obama wasn't born in the United States was just the height of irresponsibility, of course. And Donald Trump corrected that one. There are others that have yet to be corrected."
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"The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply."
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"The three auto companies in the United States, they're all scrambling to come up with a plan, some way to reinvent themselves. Well this week Ford did its part. Ford unveiled a new hybrid, the Ford Fusion, which will get almost 40 miles to the gallon. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and when asked how much it would cost, a spokesman for Ford said, '$25 billion.' They just want that money; they don't care. That's without mud flaps."
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"Kim Kardashian tweeted that she is supporting President Obama in the midterm elections. I think it worked because all of the polls are predicting that after tonight Barack Obama will still be president of the United States."
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"President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States."
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"Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States."
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