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• When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

  Robert Kagan

  Europe, Priorities, Challenges

  Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage

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• I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

  Tim Kaine

  President, United States, Partners

  "Kaine = Obama? In Va., a risky bet" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

  Diego Luna

  Feelings, United States, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Tasks, Firsts

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• The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Government, United States, Doe

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• American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Special, United States, Doe

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

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• The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Conflict, Preparing

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• What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Law, Principles, Fundamentals

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• If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

  Peter MacKay

  Fighting, Iraq, Canada

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Media, Average

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• The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

  Roger Mahony

  Party, Two, Political

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• I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Powerful, Israel, United States

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

  Richard Neal

  Voice, United States, Calling

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• It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Fall, Opportunity, United States

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• Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.

  Edward Said

  Writing, Past, Order

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• How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

  John Allen Paulos

  New York, Blood, Years

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• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Voice, Judging

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• Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.

  J. William Fulbright

  Strong, Airplane, Israel

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• Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, United States, Doe

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• The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, Support, Majority

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• The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Responsibility, Support

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• The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.

  James Monroe

  War, Taken, Rights

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• The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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