Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
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John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
"When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism"
Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle."
John Dickinson
Politician, Founding Father
"The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended."
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"I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them."
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"'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century."
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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
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"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
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"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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"I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity."
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"We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude."
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"When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA."
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"We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property."
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"America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle."
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"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
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"I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you."
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"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
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"Americans like fat books and thin women."
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"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
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"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
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"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system."
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"One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA"
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"This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."
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