Best Our National Wisdom
299 Our National quotes by 236 unique authors
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No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should…
— Salmon P. Chase
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Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline…
— Jeff Goodell
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Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr.…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to…
— Susan George
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There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
— Al Gore
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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,…
— Mitch Daniels
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Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it…
— Stockwell Day
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
— Jim DeMint
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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend…
— Nathan Deal
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but…
— Stephen Harper
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to…
— Dan Lipinski
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Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
— Rush Limbaugh
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The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the…
— Dan Lipinski
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Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's…
— Eric Liu
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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
— Wynton Marsalis
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The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly…
— Wynton Marsalis
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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
— George McGovern
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and…
— George McGovern
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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and…
— Jon Meacham
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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like…
— Evo Morales
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
— Lewis Mumford
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism.…
— Barack Obama
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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long…
— Solomon Ortiz
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