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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward. ↗

— Patty Murray

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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#american #american politics #analyst #business #commentator

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game. ↗

— Jason Patric

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We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe. ↗

— Deval Patrick

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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side. ↗

— Russell Pearce

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Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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