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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?"

"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."

"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."

"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."

"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."

"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."

"In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure."
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"It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets."

"There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs."

"If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles."

"But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place."

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."
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