Famous Quotes: America

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.
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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
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It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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