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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Christmas, Home, War

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

Government, May, Place

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill Gates

Anyone, Move, Wants

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Mitt Romney

America, Energy, Full

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chavez

American, Biggest, Planet

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil Armstrong

Long, Remember, Born

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater

War, Made, Month

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.
Jon Stewart

Problem, Smoking, Gun

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

War, Night, Mad

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
E. O. Wilson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Success, Put, Purpose

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland

Experience, School, American

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
Christopher Hitchens

Around, Horror, Korea

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.
Kid Rock

Trust, Time, Simple

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel Castro

Humanity, Country, Understand

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.
LeBron James

Down, Start, Making

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
Kim Y. Sam

Sorry, Two, Whole

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
Newt Gingrich

Morning, United, Either

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
Robert Plant

Between, African, Folk

I've been to North Africa many times.
Martin Scorsese

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
Tori Amos

Family, Christmas, Car

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
LeBron James

Lonely, Night, Kids

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Good, Attitude, Blessings

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan

Alone, Failure, Car

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
Camille Paglia

Work, Time, American

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
John Cleese

Sports, Lost, Another

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt

Work, Time, Society

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison

Death, Hell, Between

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia

Young, American, Older

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia

American, Both, Style

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