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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
Business
School
Organization
Nation
National
Late
Back
Corporations
Security
Least
Understood
Private
Ultimately
Spy
National Security
Sixties
While
Agency
Worked
Business School
Initially
Largest
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
John Polanyi
Democracy
Nation
Taken
Autocracy
After
Place
And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
John Pomfret
Freedom
Democracy
Liberty
Thought
Important
Nation
National
Whatever
Control
Other
Ramifications
Broader
Out
Spin
Direct
Beacon
Affect
Itself
National Interest
America
Just
Nations
Which
Interest
Interests
It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.
John Salazar
Health
Home
Needs
Care
Heroes
Nation
This Administration
Our
Administration
Emergency
Troops
Troops Home
Take
Never
Safely
Health Care
Deal
Afterthought
Should
VA
Bringing
Funding
Treated
Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.
John Shimkus
Nation
Corn
Feed
Grains
Farmers
Exporter
Illinois
Number
Two
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
John T. Flynn
Impossible
Conspiracy
Nation
Own
United Nations
Our
States
Must
About
Headquarters
Policies
Makes
Provides
Conduct
Shores
Nations
Form
Which
Decisions
Asia
Communist
Rid
Europe
United
United States
Actually
Here
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
John Tyler
Nation
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Melancholy
Solemn
Hath
Longer
Announced
Tidings
Discharge
Loud
Artillery
Dismal
Jefferson
Lives
Bell
We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
Johnny Van Zant
Song
Fans
Nation
Our
About
Ready
Getting
Just
Show
I think 2016 will be an absolutely pivotal year for our nation, and I'm running against Michael Bennet because I think he's dangerous. He doesn't understand the enemies that we face.
Jon Keyser
Dangerous
Enemies
Will
Face
Year
Nation
Think
Our
Running
Absolutely
He
Because
Understand
Michael
Pivotal
Against
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
Jon Meacham
Politics
Faith
Good
Character
Culture
Political
Argument
Nation
Christian
Think
Our
Religious
Religious Faith
Remain
Good Thing
Shaped
Main
Were
Years
Years Ago
Five
Than
Movements
Influenced
While
Explicitly
Less
Even
Thing
I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.
Jon Scieszka
Time
Good
Great
People
Walk
Wife
Will
First
Nation
National
Young
Every
Every Time
Our
Honored
Out
Promise
Make
Am
Continue
Ambassador
Stop
Literature
Fanfare
Room
Serve
Served
Playing
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Jonathan Dee
Nation
Programs
Way
Kind
Eyeballs
Advertiser
Principle
Go
Cultural
Sell
Junior
Same
Being
Children
Them
Large
Grown-Ups
Designed
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
Jonathan Kozol
Matter
Nation
Other
City
Districts
Record
Costs
Higher
Budget
New
Instruction
Schools
Within
Than
York
Any
New York
New York City
Themselves
Largest
Portion
Associated
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
Jonathan Sacks
Peace
People
Safety
Entitled
Nation
Live
Other
Israel
Any
I think Americans, as a nation and culture, once something is recognized for a week or two, people kind of forget about.
Jordan Burroughs
Culture
People
Nation
Think
Once
Recognized
Kind
About
Something
Week
Forget
American
Two
Two People
Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.
Jose Andres
Today
Nation
Lost
Heritage
Back
Our
Once
Way
Markets
Touch
Proper
Foods
Feed
Abundant
Look
Were
America
Bursting
Us
Roots
Breeds
Communities
Farmers
Connect
Helps
Agricultural
Bringing
As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
Jose Serrano
Remember
Debate
Will
Important
Nation
Congress
Immigrants
Affect
Legislation
Us
Lives
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
Joseph Brodsky
Culture
People
Nation
Poems
Novels
Things
Belong
Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
Joseph Brodsky
You
Reality
Evil
Leader
Nation
Neither
Moreover
Writer
Terminology
Nor
Human
Should
Use
My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.
Joseph Bruchac
Knowledge
People
Tribal
Degree
Nation
Own
Books
Neighbors
Some
About
My Own
Write
Another
Always
Lot
Get
Iroquois
Just
Whenever
Anything
Help
Special
Who
Belong
The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.
Joseph Crowley
Government
Time
People
Path
Looking
Nation
Our
Economic
Federal
Recovery
Federal Government
Lead
Splitting
Economic Recovery
Hairs
American
American Businesses
Stop
American People
Act
Businesses
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph Epstein
Class
Style
Nation
Defeat
Society
Section
Over
Come
Call
Replaced
Upper
Upper-Class
May
Decisive
Newspapers
Page
Used
Moment
Obviously, I didn't get looked at and didn't get recruited by Fresno State or any other school in the nation, to be honest. It has always been my goal to go into every game and show you why you should have recruited me, why you should have offered me.
Josh Allen
Me
You
Game
School
Nation
To Be Honest
Every
Other
State
Looked
Obviously
Always
Go
Been
Goal
Offered
Get
Any
Should
Show
Why
Honest
I come from a Latin nation that had an open policy with the U.S. My parents moved right to Florida, opened a pharmacy, and had me.
Josh Segarra
Me
Parents
Nation
Latin
Open
Had
Opened
Come
Policy
Moved
Right
Florida
Pharmacy
I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?
Joy Behar
Time
Day
You
Every Day
Nation
Every
Everybody
Out
Magazine
New
Like
Know
Read
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Newsweek
Interests
Watching
The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.
Joy Reid
Rest
Country
Economics
Nation
Society
Way
Ways
Beyond
Go
American
American Society
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