"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."

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"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."

Jay Rockefeller, American Politician

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."

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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."

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"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."

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"American business has just forgotten the importance of selling."

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"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine."

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"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."

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"I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."

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"If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream."

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"You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight."

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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

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