America Quotes - Page 37

• I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

  Rex Stout

  Girl, Cat, Wild Life

  rex stout (1955). “three witnesses”

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• America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

  Barack Obama

  War, Islam, Violent

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

  Calvin Coolidge

  War, Men, Views

  "America and the War". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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• We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Might, Kingdoms

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  Diversity, Long, Risk

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

  Gary Hamel

  Phones, Apples, Expectations

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• America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

  Glenn Beck

  Responsibility, Simple, Fire

  Glenn Beck (2012). “Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Want, My Children

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• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
  Let it be that great strong land of love
  Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
  That any man be crushed by one above.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

  Barack Obama

  Strength, Writing, World

  "Obama: Liberal critics of trade stuck in the past" by Theodore Schleifer, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2015.

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• There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back.

  Barack Obama

  Confidence, New Year, Years

  "Obama promotes auto industry bailout as a policy that worked". www.foxnews.com. January 7, 2015.

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• But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Speaks Out, United States

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• The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Class, Generations

  "|Bernie and Larry Sanders: brothers form quixotic cross-Atlantic political 'dynasty'" by Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Israel, Unbreakable

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

  Mort Kondracke

  War, Iraq, People

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• ... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Happy, Children, Virtue

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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• Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

  Kerry Thornley

  Fun, Media, Intellectual

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• The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Freedom, Thinking

  "Bill Clinton: Garner 'didn't deserve to die'" by Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2014.

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• Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Change, Brother, Years

  "Marco Rubio calls Obama’s Cuba deal 'absurd,' says will 'make every effort' to block it" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2014.

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• No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Knowing, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm
  not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the
  vulgarian.

  Orson Welles

  Character, Men, People

  "Orson Welles on Latin America" by Chan Norris, PM, p. 17, September 13, 1942.

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• One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.

  Richard Jackson

  Cancer, Kids, People

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• We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian,
  doesn't make it so.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Nice, Church

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• Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

  Larry David

  Love, Country, Freedom

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