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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
(Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. Times (London, April 22, 1991).)
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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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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
(Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938), U.S. author. On Boxing (1987).)
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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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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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