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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. ↗

— Eric Holder

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Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

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I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

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But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill. ↗

— Laura Ingraham

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Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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