Usa Quotes - Page 17

• I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Cuba, Born, Made

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

  Wendy Kopp

  Country, Educational, Teaching

  Source: www.economist.com

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• With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Two, Justice

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

  Margaret Cho

  Country, People, Way

  "Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.salon.com. October 3, 2015.

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• 15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

  Michael Moore

  Iraq, September 11, Arabia

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• Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

  Robin Cook

  Brother, Iran, Korea

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• I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

  John Hawkes

  America, Exile, Feels

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• Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

  David Axelrod

  Years, Two, President

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

  Francis Bacon

  Liberty, Modern Life, Debt

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• We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

  Jay Inslee

  Moving, Responsibility, Cutting

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• The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

  Doug Rice

  War, Air, Swings

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

  Manmohan Singh

  Democracy, Working Together, India

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA.

  Bill Bright

  Degenerates, Pornography, Immoral

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• A lot of people in the USA probably don't understand how important they are to the mortgage markets. And it's really important for people to have confidence in the mortgage markets and that there be stability in the mortgage markets.

  George W. Bush

  People, Important, Mortgage

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• No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

  Tim Kaine

  President, Firsts, Persons

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In most of the USA, the three largest health insurance companies in each state control 80 percent of the market. No wonder premiums are going up.

  Hillary Clinton

  Three, Wonder, States

  Source: time.com

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• Actually, when I saw it in USA Today, I just, Candace Parker was, we were warming up in practice and she was underneath the basket shooting and I just said, 'Hey Candace! I enjoyed what I read in the paper today about your decision [to stay].' She just started laughing and I did too. So I haven't discussed it with her.

  Pat Summitt

  Practice, Laughing, Decision

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Political, Reorganization, Scarcity

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Donald Trump's message is that we in the USA, if we're going to have a country, it would be nice too know who is here and why they're here.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Nice, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The USA won't be competitive or fair if we don't help more families give their kids the best possible start in life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Giving, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, America, Missing

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

  Yasser Arafat

  Strong, America, Doubt

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Obamacare is not affordable by the USA and it's not affordable by people.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, People, Affordable

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Under my plan the undocumented or as you would say illegal immigrant wouldn’t be in the country. They only come in the country legally.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Illegal, Plans

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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