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• The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

  Roy Blunt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy, American

• I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in American

• I think there’s an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

  Randy Jackson

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  Tags in Talent, American

• What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

  Susan Faludi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Electorate

• White Americans have a short memory.

  Renee Ellmers

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in American

• Because liberalism typically doesn’t sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

  Rich Lowry

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in American

• There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Gulf, American, Theory

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  Benjamin Harrison

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  Tags in American, Commission

• I didn’t expect to score that high. I didn’t get any big marks. It was constant. My goal in Korea is to win. There’s no timetable when to set the American record.

  Ashton Eaton

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in American, Constant

• I’m not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  Ian Hart

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  Tags in Attracted, American

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  Edward V. Lucas

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  Tags in People, American, Languages

• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we’re starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in American

• Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

  Trent Lott

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  Tags in American

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, American

• American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it’s advantageous to do so.

  Elizabeth A. Sherman

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  Tags in American, Presidents, Brutal, Dictators

• We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

  Carly Simon

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  Tags in American, Musical

• I’m in a weird band. We’ve done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in American

• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, English, Literature