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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,… — Russell Baker
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House… — Russell Baker
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. — Russell Baker
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but… — Russell Baker
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider… — James A. Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies.… — J. G. Ballard
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. — Antonio Banderas
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like… — Antonio Banderas
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to… — Henry Adams
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. — Neal Barnard
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do… — Roseanne Barr
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media.… — Roseanne Barr
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it… — Roseanne Barr
I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to… — Roseanne Barr
I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs… — Roseanne Barr
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to… — Dave Barry
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. — Dave Barry
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. — Dave Barry

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