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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."
"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."
"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."
"I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."
"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."
"Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration."
"Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection."
"There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed"
"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."
"The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism."
"Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy."
"It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States."
"The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world."
"The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity."
"(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!"
"Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!"
"What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being unpatriotic. That's an unacceptable series of equations."
"When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny."
"Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs."
"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves."
