"A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States."
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"Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections."
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"The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful."
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"When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly."
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"I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all."
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"Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to."
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"There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness."
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"Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States."
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"Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms."
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"In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society."
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"There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism."
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"If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened."
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"Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece."
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"The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place."
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"Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'"
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"In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years."
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"The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated."
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"In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders."
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"In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society."
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"Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look."
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