So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The President of the United States is a strong leader. Donald Trump is determined to move this country in the direction he… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them,… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a gig, I used to ring up all the comedy clubs across the country and go, 'If anyone… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio… — Paul Galanti Copy Share Image
In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking.… — Lourdes Portillo Copy Share Image
He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter… — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
By Congress delegating its authority to the executive and judicial branches, we've removed the American people from the process. They're left as… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
As far as the low-information segment of the population - the vast, vast, vast majority of which votes Democrat - if you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
If you're a doctor, or a scientist, or a computer programmer, it shouldn't matter whether you come from Nigeria, or Norway, or… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation.… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to… — Eric Felten Copy Share Image
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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