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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."

"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries."


"So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments."


"The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items."


"Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa."


"The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85."


"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all."


"There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries."


"On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States."
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