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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  Dave Brubeck

  Russia, Discipline, Democracy

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• Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

  Demian Bichir

  Powerful, Epic, Issues

  "The Esquire Nominating Academy Presents: Demián Bichir" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

  Careers, Community, Guy

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

  Joan Blades

  Jobs, Kids, Blue

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

  Linwood Barclay

  Smart, Average, Car

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• Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

  Michael C. Burgess

  United States, Nuclear, Today

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• In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

  Richard Burr

  Challenges, Working Together, Looks

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• When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Special, United States

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• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  Tammy Bruce

  Independent, United States, Spirit

  "Tuesday's Tea Party revolution". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Cutting, Thinking, Talking

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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• You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Iraq, Important

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• Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

  Christiane Amanpour

  People, United States, Don't Trust

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• The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

  Eric Alterman

  Media, Empowering, United States

  Eric Alterman (2008). “What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News”, p.18, Basic Books

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• I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

  Gloria Allred

  Believe, Opportunity, Should Have

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• If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

  Frank Carlucci

  Moving, Iran, United States

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• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

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• I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

  Hugo Chavez

  Government, Wish, United States

  "Hugo Chavez prefers Obama", www.politico.com. September 30, 2012.

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• As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

  Jim Costa

  Believe, Democracy, Important

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• The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

  Margaret Chan

  Play, Agency, Important

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• What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

  Nick Clooney

  Government, Years, Saving

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• These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

  Paul Cellucci

  Team, Law, Office

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• We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, War, Impact

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• It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

  Peter Carey

  Class, Australia, Kingdoms

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