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"It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot."
Dick Durbin
"It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot."
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"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."
Robert Matsui
"Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past."
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"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."
Pete Domenici
"I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region."
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"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
George H. Mead
"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
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"Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better."
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"You know, the country is basically peaceful."
Paul Bremer
"You know, the country is basically peaceful."
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"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."
Peter Pace
"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."
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"One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country."
Joe Slovo
"One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country."
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"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."
Elizabeth Montagu
"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."
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"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."
Lee H. Hamilton
"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."
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"As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives."
Brian Moore
"As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives."
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"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
Charles Churchill
"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
Armstrong Williams
"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."
Mickey Mantle
"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
Virginia Woolf
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
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"Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble."
Jeff Sessions
"Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble."
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"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
Harold Pinter
"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
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"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization."
Byron Dorgan
"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization."
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"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
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"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."
Wilfrid Laurier
"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."
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"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
Sam Houston
"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
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"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
Federico Garcia Lorca
"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
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"I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country."
Harold Ford
"I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country."
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"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country."
Christine O'Donnell
"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country."
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"The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained."
Martin Frost
"The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained."
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"If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem."
David Petraeus
"If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem."
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"No man is a hero in his own country."
John Monash
"No man is a hero in his own country."
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"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
Henry Cabot Lodge
"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
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"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
Robert MacNeil
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
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"From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves."
James Monroe
"From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves."
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"Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents."
Ike Skelton
"Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents."
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"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."
Trent Lott
"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."
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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."
Philip James Bailey
"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."
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"Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years."
Tim Holden
"Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years."
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"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country."
Jeff Sessions
"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country."
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"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
Bao Dai
"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
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"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."
Star Jones
"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."
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"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received."
Rudolf Arnheim
"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received."
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"No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse."
Lester Bangs
"No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse."
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"This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others."
Richard Grasso
"This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others."
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"When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates."
Paul Ryan
"When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates."
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"We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them."
Steve Largent
"We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them."
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"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
Fay Godwin
"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
Roald Dahl
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
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"When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue."
Carroll Quigley
"When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue."
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"If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?"
Harold Ford
"If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?"
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"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
Penelope Lively
"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
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"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
Bob Filner
"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
Martin Van Buren
"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
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"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
Paul Tsongas
"America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture."
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