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• I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

  Daniel Johnston

  United States, Trouble, Ifs

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Loss, People

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• In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Real, Artist

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• We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

  Mike Johanns

  Believe, Decision, Leader

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  Naveen Jain

  Country, Dream, Responsibility

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• The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, America, Envy

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 23, 2016

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• New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

  Ellie Kemper

  New York, Cities, America

  "Ellie Kemper Writes For McSweeney's, Was A High School Student of Jon Hamm's, and Single-Handedly Saved Us From A Too-Serious Season of The Office". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Criticism, Done

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Government, Ohio

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Decision, Liberty

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.179

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• Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Creating, America

  "Obama urges climate action" by Elana Schor, www.politico.com. September 23, 2014.

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• By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

  George W. Bush

  America, Choices, United States

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 12 September 2002, New York, NY

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• As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Years, Europe

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• There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

  Bill McCollum

  Punishment, Criminals, United States

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• I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Running, Country, Children

  Formal Announcement of Candidacy, Cleveland City Council Chambers, p2004.org. October 13, 2003.

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• It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

  Elena Kagan

  Jobs, People, Balance

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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, United States, Sovereign

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• The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Support, Majority

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• The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  America, United States, Exhibitions

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• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Average, United States

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• Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

  John F. Kerry

  President, United States, Bakers

  John Kerry's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

  John Kasich

  Country, Children, Gentleman

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