- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.
- Heating
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- Nov 07, 2020
For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.
- Budget Deficit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.
- Demonize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020