- 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.
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- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe American leadership in the world matters, that we can't just disengage from the world.
- Assure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know any American rock bands.
- Escalation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020