Usa Quotes - Page 7

• I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Cycling

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• The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

  Bob Barker

  Missing, Unexpected, Pageant

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• I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.

  Aly Raisman

  Girl, Goal, Able

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• Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA!'

  Barack Obama

  Three, World, Proud

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• There is some good news for John McCain. According to the latest polls, which came out today, John McCain has started to open up a lead over Barack Obama. This is true. Yeah. The USA Today poll has McCain ahead by ten points. The 'CBS News' poll has the two tied. And the MSNBC poll says that Obama won the election last week.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, News, Today

  "56 days - Jake Tapper on what women want" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 09, 2008.

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• This year, 1.7 million young people will be participating in Olympic and Paralympic sports in their communities-many of them for the very first time. And that is so important, because sometimes all it takes is that first lesson, or clinic, or class to get a child excited about a new sport. This summer, together with our children, we can support Team USA not just by cheering them on, but by striving to live up to the example they set.

  Michelle Obama

  Summer, Sports, Cheer

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• America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

  James A. Michener

  America, Politics, Flaws

  James A. Michener (1970). “The Quality of Life”

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• America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Printed Word, America

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• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  Pitbull

  Country, Looks, Documentation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

  John Grant

  Country, Animal, Sharks

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• I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

  Augusten Burroughs

  America, Today, Months

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

  Anatoly Karpov

  America, Citizens, Way

  "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Moral Leadership, America

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  Anne Stevenson

  Children, America, Mountain

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• We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  America, Giving, Phases

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• The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, People, Black

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• USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.

  Jay Leno

  Dna, Years, Numbers

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• Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Countries Of The World, Oil

  "The real reasons Bush went to war" by John Chapman, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I love America. It's Americans I can't stand.

  Charles M. Schulz

  America, United States Of America, I Can

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• Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Mexico, Canada

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• The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

  Dave Beard

  Turkeys, Evil, Dutch

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• If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Age, World

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• The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

  Boomer Esiason

  Football, Organization, America

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