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America Quotes


"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."


"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."


"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."



"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."



"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."


"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."


"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."


"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."


"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."


"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."


"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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