- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Betrayal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.
- Avoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.
- Nov 07, 2020
So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.
- Manly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020