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• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  Carroll Quigley

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• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  Carroll O'Connor

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• Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

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• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

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• To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

  Emma Goldman

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• American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

  Carrie Underwood

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• The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

  Richard Shelby

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• By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you’d be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

  Richard Russo

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• There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

  Carrie Underwood

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• If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on American life.

  Richard Russo

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• After 10 years of French torture – psychological torture – it’s great to do an American movie.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it’s kind of like, oh!, and you can’t go out; you’re stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

  Richard Pombo

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• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

  Richard Perle

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• Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity – but not of terrorist sympathies.

  Richard Perle

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• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

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• I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

  Richard Parks Bland

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• Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

  Richard Parks Bland

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• Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

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• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Richard Neal

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  Tags in Over, American, Tax