• The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a t

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 160 reads

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• The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 105 reads

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• The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 7 reads

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 68 reads

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• The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 200 reads

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• The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 10 reads

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• The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than else

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 90 reads

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 137 reads

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• The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 56 reads

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• The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 8 reads

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• The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 44 reads

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• The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 190 reads

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• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an A

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 167 reads

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• The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 80 reads

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• The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 39 reads

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• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 176 reads

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• The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 113 reads

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• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 56 reads

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• The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 151 reads

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• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.7 · 54 votes · 89 reads

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• The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 124 reads

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• The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 199 reads

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• The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 8 reads

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• The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.1 · 11 votes · 88 reads

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• The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 7 reads

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• The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 76 reads

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• The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 60 reads

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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of o

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 158 reads

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• There are no second acts in American lives.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 59 votes · 132 reads

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• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not in

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 166 reads

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• There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 98 reads

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• There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 126 reads

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• There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 21 reads

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• There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 16 reads

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• There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 103 reads

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• There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 82 reads

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 61 reads

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 32 reads

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual f

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 160 reads

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• There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 89 reads

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 148 reads

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• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 2 reads

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• Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 49 reads

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundre

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 144 reads

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• Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 137 reads

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 43 reads

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 171 reads

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• We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 50 reads

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 131 reads

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• We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 7 votes · 7 reads

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• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 167 reads

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• We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 161 reads

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• We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that d

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 7 reads

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• We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.0 · 7 votes · 66 reads

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• We need a great president.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 178 reads

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• We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the r

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 165 reads

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• We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 190 reads

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 96 reads

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we hav

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 89 reads

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• Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 148 reads

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• Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 65 reads

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• What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.0 · 32 votes · 43 reads

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• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 95 reads

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• What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 107 reads

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• Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 11 reads

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• When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 116 reads

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• When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 23 reads

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• When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 114 reads

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• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 83 reads

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• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 173 reads

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• Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 191 reads

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• You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 87 reads

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• You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 59 votes · 50 reads

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• Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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