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• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
• By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned… — John F. Kennedy
• The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of… — Josh Fox
• I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. — Stewart Udall
• The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. — Al Gore
• The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic… — Wilfrid Sheed
• The basic American promise that if you work hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send… — Barack Obama

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