Exceptionalism Quotes - Page 2

• America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

  Mark Shields

  America, Borders, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.

  Jim DeMint

  Biblical, Views, Understanding

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• I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.

  Tony Burgess

  Shoes, Wish, Sound

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• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Greatness, America, Free Market

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 19, 2013

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• American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

  Ron Fournier

  Character, Narrative, American Exceptionalism

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• Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Business, Taken

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• Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three that would be legalized [and] become Democrats. And it's not 12 million. It's more like 20 million...But it isn't just the equation of 2/3 of over 20 million that will vote for the guy who opposes our conservative candidate whoever that might be, but it's also those who will leave us if we fail them...We have to go back and tie together and restore the pillars of American exceptionalism and the rule of law is essential.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Law, Two

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• The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

  Russ Feingold

  Wings, America, Want

  Russ Feingold (2012). “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era”, p.211, Broadway Books

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• America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

  Bobby Jindal

  Military, Believe, America

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

  Gerald Celente

  War, People, Fake

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• There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Self, Way

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• It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

  Ron Fournier

  Political, Tactics, Tricks

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• The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

  Allen West

  Country, Liberty, Legacy

  Source: wethekids.us

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• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Erosion

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

  Megyn Kelly

  Believe, Mean, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.

  David Puttnam

  Self, Editors, Special

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

  John Cusack

  Islam, Bed, Lovers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United States with the system of the USSR.

  Paul Kengor

  Government, America, People

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.

  Sarah Posner

  Christian, Pumps, Narrative

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• I think where [Donald Trump] loses most hawkish republicans is when he talking about how much he likes [Vladimir] Putin. That should make any person who believe in the American exceptionalism, incredibly uncomfortable.

  John McCain

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.

  Diana L. Eck

  Tired, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Two, Focus

  Source: www.politico.com

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• America hasn't been leading anything. We have been blamed the last eight years [2008-2016]. The United States has been nothing special about us. American exceptionalism was mocked and laughed at.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Eight, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've been fortunate enough to travel to 58 different countries and I thank God everyday that I was born in this country. The most exceptional country that the world has ever known. And I want to make sure that we preserve that exceptionalism for the next generation.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Everyday, Thank God

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

  Jim DeMint

  Character, Principles, World

  "DeMint is in demand" by Shawna Shepherd, www.cnn.com. September 4, 2011.

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