"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

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"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."

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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

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"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

Paul Harris, American Entertainer

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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

Cesar Conda, American Consultant

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"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."

Jean Baudrillard, French Sociologist

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"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician

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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

John Philip Sousa, American Musician

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"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."

Sandra Day O'Connor, American Judge

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"Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?"

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"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."

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