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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy Graham

Pride, Lifestyle, Shame

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Clint Eastwood

Greatest, President, Obama

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry Miller

Control, Revolution, Two

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
Barack Obama

Children, Win, Friends

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen

Young, Sure, Foundation

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, Chance

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt Romney

Said, Around, Here

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

Black, Proud, Pride

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

Different, America, Liberty

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X

Black, Problem, Violence

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

Great, Game, Baseball

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
George W. Bush

America, Cannot, Touch

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul

War, Another, Might

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
Mitt Romney

Why, Team, Door

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken

Progress, Taxes, Twice

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

Together, Friends, Put

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt Romney

Money, Friends, Free

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

President, Run, Prepared

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

Ambition, Married, Film

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Ron Paul

Freedom, Individual, Protected

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

Government, Revolution, Principles

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

Change, Care, Direction

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Live, Greatest, Political

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.
Mitt Romney

Young, Vote, Democrat

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Real, Wrong

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Mistake, Economic

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
Mitt Romney

Leadership, End, Begin

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.
Mitt Romney

Heart, Tell, Tax

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