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"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."
"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
"Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist."
"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
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"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."
"Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake."
"Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help."
"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again."
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
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