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I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards... 
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Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cyni... 
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose... 
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poi... 
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st... 
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I... 
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I... 
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. 
If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by... 
Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Ta... 
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions h... 
It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong t... 
Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, South-Asian Americans, and Sikh Americans contribute greatly to Am... 
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her... 
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int... 
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i... 
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. 
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' 
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr... 
We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our... 
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer... 
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i... 
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "Pres... 
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. 
When good Americans die they go to Paris. 
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ... 
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. ... 
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y... 
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive... 
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or... 
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From televi... 
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do f... 
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it 
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What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is a... 
Only votes talk, everything else walks. 
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The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which... 
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans."
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. 
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ... 
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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. 
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Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. 
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