"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."
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"If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail."
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"There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism."
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"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"
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"I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman."
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"There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA."
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"The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame."
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"I don't think there is much American music."
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"Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt."
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"The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain."
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"Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion ."
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"People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA]."
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"In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record."
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"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
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"We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world."
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"We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility."
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"We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check."
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"The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments."
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"Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation."
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"It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions."
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