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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
(Mario Puzo (b. 1920), U.S. screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939), U.S. director, screenwriter. Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto), The Godfather, as he asks Don Corleone for vengeance (1972).)
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
(Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), U.S. rock musician. Rolling Stone (New York, Nov. 30, 1989).)
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
(Russell Baker (b. 1925), U.S. journalist. New York Times (May 14, 1991).)
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
(Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. Times (London, April 22, 1991).)
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
(Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938), U.S. author. On Boxing (1987).)
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Discussion in America means dissent.
(James Thurber (1894-1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. "The Duchess and the Bugs," Lanterns and Lances (1961).)
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The business of America is business.
(Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), U.S. Republican politician, president. speech, Jan. 17, 1925, to the Society of American Newspaper Editors.)
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It's time for America to get right.
(Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), African American civil rights activist. As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 8, by Hay Mills (1993).
Said on September 13, 1965, in a speech at a rally following a hearing before the United States House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Elections—at which she had also spoken.)
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My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, it ... will turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedom ... that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.
(Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (July 4, 1914).
These words were spoken a few weeks before the Great War broke out in Europe.)
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I like to be in America!
OK by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!
(Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930), U.S. songwriter. America (song), West Side Story (stage show, 1957; film, 1961).)
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