6439 American Quotes for You to Enjoy

We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise. Claire McCaskill

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There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality. Claire McCaskill

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There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy. Claire McCaskill

It's very American, making a lot of money. Claire McCaskill

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I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it. Clare-Hope Ashitey

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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Claudia Rankine

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American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. Clayton M. Christensen

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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else. Clayton M. Christensen

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Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Clemantine Wamariya

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In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television. Clemantine Wamariya

I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. Cliff Stearns

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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased. Cliff Stearns

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. Clifford Geertz

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I grew up with the South American style of toca-toca. Clint Dempsey

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If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is. Clint Eastwood

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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. Clint Smith

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To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans. Clint Smith

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