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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."

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Howard Dean Politician
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"I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!""

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Rand Paul Politician
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"I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by."

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Lamar Hunt Businessman
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"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."

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Nat King Cole Singer, Pianist
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"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age."

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Fred Barnes Journalist
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"President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web."

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