- Big
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
- Dodging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
- Ballistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
- Paris
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- Nov 07, 2020
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
- Envision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. Open is so special, and I'm not even saying that as an American. I just can't envision a better atmosphere.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
- Counselors
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- Nov 07, 2020
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
- Deepen
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- Nov 07, 2020