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• When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Country, Politics

  Tags in American

• I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I’m upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I’ve been angry since.

  Fisher Stevens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Really, Woman

• I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

  Toni Collette

  Topics in America

  Tags in TV Series, American

• Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.

  George William Norris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Governments

• Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

  George Will

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  Tags in American, Admirable

• Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

  George Will

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Imprisonment

• Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

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  Tags in American, Pessimism

• North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  Fidel Castro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, American

• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  George Washington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  Fernando Alonso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Think, American

• The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It’s all-American classic.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lifestyle, American

• We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in American

• Probably we’ll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

  Tommy Franks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.

  George Wald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Conservative, Estimation

• A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

  George Wald

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  Tags in American

• Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

  Tommy Chong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

  George Wald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Invention

• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Happy, Fact

• We are Americans. We – we – we are – we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are – we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Watched, Investment, American