"The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative."
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"Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this."
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"We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States."
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"What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities."
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"The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument."
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"We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good."
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"The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America."
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"When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people."
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"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
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"Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction."
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"I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago."
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"In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense."
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"An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million"
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"California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States"
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"If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am."
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"The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life."
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"The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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