United Quotes - Page 34

• Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

  Barry Levinson

  Laughing, United States, Actors

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Cutting, Rivers, Air

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

  Azim Premji

  Character, Community, Canada

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• In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

  Daniel Pipes

  Government, Long, Islam

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

  George Papandreou

  Growing Up, Sweden, Becoming

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• As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

  Reince Priebus

  Mean, Opportunity, America

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• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Charles Rangel

  United States, Immigrants, Nations

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• AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

  Christina Romer

  War, Winning, Class

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Bullets, September

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• A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Racism, Enemy, United States

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

  Helen Reddy

  Careers, Australia, Years

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• The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Men, White Man, United States

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• On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

  Marc Racicot

  Enemy, Allies, United States

  "Kerry: Bush uses terrorism threat for campaign" by Mike Rosell, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2004.

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• Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

  Marco Rubio

  Sacrifice, America, Parent

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• I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, United States, Today

  "Scott Ritter: Case against Iraq is speculation". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2002.

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• The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

  Eric Schlosser

  United States, Cain, Murder

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• Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Long, Important, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Believe, Thinking, World

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• No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

  John Schlesinger

  Artist, Organization, Directors

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• Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, America, Shoes

  "Coloradans At DNC: Jared Polis, Ken Salazar, Ryan Case And Maria Ciano Speak During Opening Night". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 05, 2012.

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• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, War, Recovery

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• Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

  May Sarton

  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Brother, Struggle, Forever

  "In Iraq, a popular cleric cranks up anti-U.S. rhetoric" by Jomana Karadsheh and Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2011.

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• English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

  Norman Spinrad

  Design, United States, Pieces

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• It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

  Romeo Santos

  Kids, Community, United States

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