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• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Terry Southern

  Believe, Firsts, United States

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• By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

  George Tenet

  Enemy, United States, Definitions

  Remarks at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004.

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• I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

  George Tenet

  People, United States, Asian

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• General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

  Jim Talent

  Circles, People, Decision

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• I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

  John Thune

  Fighting, America, United States

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

  George Weah

  Country, Believe, Rights

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• I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

  Victor Ponta

  Europe, Romania, Committed

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• The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

  Sanford I. Weill

  United States, Financial, Economy

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• You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, President, United States

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• I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

  David Ignatius

  Believe, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Cutting, Cfs

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• My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

  Mia Love

  Opportunity, Land, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Mexico

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• Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Adults, United States, Nine

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

  Claire McCaskill

  Country, United States, Tvs

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• That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Opportunity, Land

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

  John Ralston Saul

  United States, Enthusiasm, Given

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, America, Black

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• Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Ambition, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America

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• We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

  Michele Bachmann

  Land, President, United States

  Western Debate in Las Vegas, www.thepoliticalguide.com. October 18, 2011.

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• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Trying, World, Irony

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• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, United States, Generations

  "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.

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• I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Class, America

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, America, United States

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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