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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

Mother, Father, Children

There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lives, Second, Acts

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Old, Another, Himself

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Cannot, Opinion, Public

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

Soldier, Grateful, Film

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov

Society, Read, Found

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Hillary Clinton

Freedom, Government, Understand

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton

War, Courage, Brave

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Live, Forget, Long

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

Violence, Public, Poison

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
Hillary Clinton

Help, Economy, Nations

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary Clinton

Greatest, Sense, Dream

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
Hillary Clinton

Future, Mean, Between

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Political, Highest

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.
Hillary Clinton

Human, Security, Policy

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.
Hillary Clinton

Bad, Enough, Living

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman

Black, Hero, King

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.
Rush Limbaugh

Vote, Election, Idol

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Ambrose Bierce

State, Alien, Sovereign

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Person, Country

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Leaving, Wit, Salt

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Happen, America, President

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky

President, Laws, Applied

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing, Boring, Living

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Marilu Henner

Knowledge, Between, Year

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

Anywhere, Troops, Obey

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge

Business, After, Concerned

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Order, United, Democrat

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater

Life, Family, Wife

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
Thomas Sowell

Mean, Around, Far

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