America Quotes - Page 39

• The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Military, Thinking

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

  Jack Bruce

  Suffering, Done, Damage

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• America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Attitude, Next Day, Wake Up

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• If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off.

  George Carlin

  Honesty, Pie, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

  Ted Nugent

  Suicidal, Fighting, Long

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• In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

  Elie Wiesel

  President, Allies, Bombs

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

  George Carlin

  Running, Artist, Thieves

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Class, Poor, Source

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

  Nas

  Book, Roots, People

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

  Gore Vidal

  Rome, Europe, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Reality, Ethnicity

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Gone Away, Corporations

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

  Henry Rollins

  Islands, Switzerland, Economy

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Cynical, President

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Facts, Taxes

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.

  Tyra Banks

  Bullying, Kids, Cutting

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• I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

  Tyra Banks

  Thinking, Missing, Top Model

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.

  Michael Light

  Country, Splendor, Doe

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

  Michael Light

  Kind, Los Angeles, Holy

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

  Robert Reich

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Tennis, Pills

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I think the immigration system we have now is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Immigration

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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