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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have… — Henry Ward Beecher
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. — Max Beerbohm
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. — Paul Begala
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy… — Harry Belafonte
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. — Saul Bellow
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives… — Carl Bernstein
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time… — Benazir Bhutto
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that… — Joe Biden
Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed… — Joe Biden
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever… — Joe Biden
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. — Joe Biden
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers.… — Joe Biden
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we… — Joe Biden
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. — Ambrose Bierce
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition… — Ambrose Bierce
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. — Juliette Binoche
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not… — Juliette Binoche
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no… — Conrad Black
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively… — Conrad Black

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