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America Quotes
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
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"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
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"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."
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"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America."
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"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
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"For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us."
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"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."
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"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."
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"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."
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"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
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"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
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"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America."
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"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."
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"Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America."
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"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together."
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"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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"I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."
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"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
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"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."
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"If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it."
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"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."
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