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• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Topics in America

  Tags in Urgent

• And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

  Phil Ochs

  Topics in America

• Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

  Phil Ochs

  Topics in America

  Tags in Losing

• The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they’re available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

  Benny Andersson

  Topics in America

• Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Topics in America

  Tags in Disease

• Well, there’s nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

  Paul Hogan

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in America, Art, Sad

• There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Topics in America

  Tags in Music

• I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we’re engaging in piracy.

  Will Oldham

  Topics in America

  Tags in Poverty, Paycheck

• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  Ehud Olmert

  Topics in America

  Tags in Europe

• While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America’s generosity and good will.

  Bill Shuster

  Topics in America

• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

  Paul Auster

  Topics in America

  Tags in Leave, Poetry

• Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

  Richard Lugar

  Topics in America

  Tags in Best, Lose

• In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

  Simon Sinek

  Topics in America

• I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

  George Soros

  Topics in America, Democracy, Society

  Tags in Freedom

• I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Topics in America

  Tags in Believe

• Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America’s proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Topics in America

  Tags in People

• The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

  Peter Arnett

  Topics in America

  Tags in War, Planning

• Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

  Rick Mercer

  Topics in America

  Tags in Days

• Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

  Robert Menendez

  Topics in America, Challenge

  Tags in Look