"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"Americans are so dedicated to their jobs."

Jamelia, English Musician

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"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

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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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"I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls."

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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."

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"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."

Government

"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."

Government

"I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control."

Thought

"Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public."

Public

"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."

Office

"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."

Whim

"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."

People

"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"

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"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."

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"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."

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