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• For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.

  Joy Bryant

  Running, Country, Insecure

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• If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• First of all, what we [in USA] need to understand is the middle class is what makes us different and exceptional. Every country has rich people, but what has made us different throughout history is that we have this broad-based vibrant middle class.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Beautiful, Country, Flower

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

  Robert Bateman

  Taken, Color, Boots

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• I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Team, Names, People

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

  Edward Albee

  Responsibility, Thinking, Climate

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• It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Causes, Democrat, Policy

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Culture

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• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Effort, President, Climate

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• Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

  Evan Sayet

  Mean, Green, Raised

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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  Laura Ingraham

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". "TODAY" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Jon Voight

  Country, Real, War

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• In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

  Paul Broun

  President, United States, Opinion

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• Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

  Rich Lowry

  Fighting, Machines, Messages

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• Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

  Evan Sayet

  Humble, Waiting, Needs

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• I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.

  Terrence Howard

  Thinking, People, Community

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• I am an American. I love this country.

  Paul Tsongas

  Country

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• We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

  Bill Bruford

  Guy, Different, Mars

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• Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

  Tommy Chong

  Lying, Justice, Inconsistency

  FaceBook post by Tommy Chong from Jan 04, 2013

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• And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Dream, Grateful, Men

  "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.

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• Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Punishment, Long, Suffering

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• If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

  Kurt Angle

  Country, Hero, Wwe

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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