America Quote by Mary McGrory

“Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.”

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Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

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Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

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[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't…

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[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together…

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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of…

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You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

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Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it…

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And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing,…

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Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent…

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Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

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[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

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[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,…

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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