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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."
"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."
"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system."
"One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA"
"This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."
"America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less."
"Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
"I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests."
"How can we help President Obama?"
"But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box."
"You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside."
"Donald Trump insisted he's always had a great relationship with women. He said, 'I believe a woman can be anything she wants to be, whether that's Miss USA or Miss Universe. Either one.'"
"Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980."
"In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda."
"Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke."
"You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !"
"Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA."
"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
"The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow."
