"We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people -……" — Herman Melville

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• When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
• First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans… — John Avlon
• Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made… — Joe Baca
• Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
• Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
• Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was… — Russell Baker
• Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just… — Russell Baker
• What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not… — Russell Baker
• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The… — James A. Baldwin
• As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the… — Antonio Banderas
• Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
• I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be… — Roseanne Barr

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