#american

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#americans #civil-rights #expression #gay-rights #homosexuality

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

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There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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