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• I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

  Laura Bush

  United States, States

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2004.

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• The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding

  Andrew Johnson

  Law, Land, Judging

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.469, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, School, America

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• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Government, United States, Influence

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• Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

  Amy Goodman

  Country, Impact, Islands

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books

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• And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Years, United States, Haiti

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Years, United States, Haiti

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Military, Giving, United States

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• European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in the United States to contribute military forces to problems which involve our own security.

  Geoff Hoon

  Country, Military, Allies

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• I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Party, America

  "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role... that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

  Aaron Klein

  Media, United States, Assault

  "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  Xavi

  Football, Heart, Birth Place

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Years, United States

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• In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

  David Leonhardt

  Reality, Political, United States

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• People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

  Lois Gibbs

  Hands, People, Needs

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• You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Names, President

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• United need to start garnishing some points.

  Steve McManaman

  Needs

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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Law, Nicaragua

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• No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

  Kim Jong Il

  Order, Discipline, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

  Ned Sublette

  Practice, Keys, New Orleans

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• There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

  Alan Cranston

  Believe, Japan, Long

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• I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

  Andy Stern

  Issues, United States, Movement

  "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  Jack Dorsey

  Numbers, People, United States

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

  Anton Corbijn

  Years, Kingdoms, Firsts

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• The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

  Clark Kerr

  United States, World, Higher Education

  Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

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