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America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
America seems much more diverse and has more exciting casting - they really take risks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
- Black Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'
- Faulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
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- Nov 07, 2020