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• In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.

  Gideon Raff

  Topics in America, Death

  Tags in Terrorist

• Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

  Stephen King

  Topics in America

  Tags in Deadly, Reason

• As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

  Reince Priebus

  Topics in America, Business, Opportunity

  Tags in Relationships, Consumption

• America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.

  Brad Pitt

  Topics in America, Country

• I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Over

• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  Bill Johnson

  Topics in America

  Tags in Social

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  Adam Johnson

  Topics in America

  Tags in Person, Characters, Defining

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in America

  Tags in Tenacity

• In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

  Sarah Palin

  Topics in America

  Tags in Competition

• Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

  Suze Orman

  Topics in America

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Topics in America

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  Ted Nugent

  Topics in America

• Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don’t we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.

  George Noory

  Topics in America

  Tags in Illegal, Immigrants

• Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Topics in America

• We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we’re recovering so slowly.

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in America

  Tags in Lost

• If you’re fascinated by America, you’ll be fascinated by family.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Topics in America, Family

• Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We’ve always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America

  Tags in Race

• Identity in America is complicated but it’s also simple: it’s about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America

  Tags in Identity

• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one’s loss is precisely the other’s gain.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America

  Tags in China, Game

• Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in America, College

  Tags in Leaders