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• If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

  Bill O'Reilly

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• Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

  Bill O'Reilly

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• What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn’t have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what ‘was’ and ‘were,’ we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte Marie

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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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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Topics in America, Love

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

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  Tags in American, Friendly, Suspicious

• Europe’s the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  D. H. Lawrence

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• My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

  Gerhard Schroder

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• If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

  Gerhard Schroder

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• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  Elizabeth II

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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• It’s like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they’re still watching American movies.

  Roland Emmerich

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• 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

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

  George Will

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

  George Will

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