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Us Quotes
What connects us, from global trade to family memory.
These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.
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During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
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Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.
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Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.
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I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
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The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.
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Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
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If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
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Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
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But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
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God save us from religion.
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All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.
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Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.
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