"The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States."
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"I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West."
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"I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?"
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"The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict."
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"Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius."
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"American mind a wilderness of opportunities."
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"To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States."
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"The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico."
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"Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence."
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"Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States."
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"I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States."
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"The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed."
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"The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world."
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"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."
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"Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man."
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"from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest."
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"Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college."
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"Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person."
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"The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century."
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"I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control."
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