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The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
You
People
Problem
Car
Other
Sides
Atrocities
Both
Facing
Troops
Both Sides
Know
Also
Prisons
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Times
American
Use
American Troops
Uses
Groups
Bombs
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preach
Own
Others
Elsewhere
Responsibilities
High
Moral
Wrong
Institution
Authorities
American
Department
Done
Act
Stand
Actions
Even
Each
Compare
Platform
Guantanamo
Basis
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
Al Franken
War
Constitution
Peace
Rights
Liberty
Our
Would
Both
Protect
Powers
Limited
Were
Times
American
Crafted
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Who
Founders
Draft
Careful
Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
Al Franken
Difficult
Every
Colleagues
Possible
Jobs
Some
Seem
More
Struggling
Economy
Doing
Method
Than
Senate
American
Procedural
Anything
Interested
Creating
Helping
Using
Keep
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
Al Franken
Technology
Constitution
Reflect
Living
Society
Changing
Our
Evolution
Laws
Document
Expectations
American
Often
American Society
Why
Need
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
Al Franken
Website
Law
Think
Channels
Worry
Favorite
TV
About
Cable
Look
Most
Knows
Antitrust
American
Them
Should
Bill
Flip
It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
Al Franken
Time
People
Will
Wish
Presidency
Back
Complete
Something
Bag
Disaster
Look
Mixed
American
American People
Fullness
There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.
Al Franken
Dangerous
Superior
Sense
Think
Way
Bit
Morally
Self-Critical
American
Appeal
I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
Al Franken
Think
Liberal
Liberals
Reclaim
Most
American
Want
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
Al Franken
Death
People
Care
Fall
Victim
Deficit
Affordable
American
Affordable Care Act
Disinformation
American People
Ask
Cuts
Act
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
Al Gore
Change
Values
Hunger
Administration
Some
Betrayed
Had
American
American Values
Basic
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
Al Gore
Good
Change
People
Diversity
Think
Beneficial
More
Excellence
Good Thing
Points
Journalism
Fresh
Articulated
American
Committed
Landscape
View
Who
Media
Thing
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Al Smith
People
Sunshine
Walk
Carry
Never
Umbrella
American
Eternal
American People
Prepare
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
Alan Alda
Segment
Almost
Scientific
Mountain
American
Died
Frontiers
Chile
Filming
In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
Alan Cheuse
Life
Marriage
Husband
Real Life
Worst
Indians
Some
Shadow
Scenes
Tag
Real
American
Psychological
Fictional
American Indians
Creates
Painter
Her
Suggest
Two
Stresses
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
Alan Dershowitz
Life
Paranoid
Tend
Hosts
Talk
Talk Show
American
American Life
Show
Radio
Streak
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.
Alan Dershowitz
Pride
Will
Values
Liberal
Significant
Compromise
Segment
Never
He
Support
Another
Israel
American
Refused
Who
Original
Shrinking
Jewish
It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.
Alan Dershowitz
Say
Guns
Wrong
American
Bigoted
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Alan Dundes
Future
Time
Worldview
Past
Mentioned
Involves
American
Formulas
Present
We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
Alan Furst
Time
Morning
People
Live
Way
One Morning
Easy
Come
Because
Got
Up
American
Century
Miles
Who
Play
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.
Alan Greenspan
History
You
Back
Look
Terribly
Prairie
Self-Reliant
Go
Were
Survive
Canadian
American
Different
American History
Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that 'gay' is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person.
Alan K. Simpson
Gay
Man
Woman
Commitment
Goals
Rich
Lesbian
Says
About
Had
Shared
Performance
Since
Come
Category
Openly
Knowing
Person
American
Artificial
Little
Realize
Working
Measuring
Many
Satisfaction
The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.
Alan K. Simpson
Love
Together
Group
Airline
Bound
Insurance
American
Common
Million
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Music
Saying
Me
Book
Ought
Back
Collected
Folk
Folk Music
See
Songs
He
Knew
Days
Come
Sing
Go
American
Dylan
Bobby
Next
Used
Village
Lived
I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.
Alan Ruck
Art
Comedy
Think
Art Form
American
Form
Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.
Alan Siegel
Conversation
Change
Result
Collective
Stronger
Party
National
Differences
Our
Define
Defines
Must
More
Purpose
Supports
Well
Well-Being
Around
Makes
Brand
American
Being
Centered
Us
Productive
Lantern
Binds
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