Famous Quotes: American

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
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A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
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Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
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Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
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