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My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
Susana Martinez
You
Business
Better
Three
Parents
Employees
Believe
Guarding
Took
Way
States
Risk
More
Small
Small Business
Along
Sure
Built
Up
Than
Stood
Grew
Help
Bingo
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Sydney Pollack
Made
Films
States
Over
Mexico
Japan
Hollywood
Europe
Yugoslavia
United
United States
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
Sylvia Earle
Agriculture
Drains
Our
States
Gulf
Percent
Roads
Mississippi
Courses
Does
Go
Ultimately
Domestic
Where
Golf
Golf Courses
Forty
United
Downstream
United States
Groups like AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, and other service organizations have a huge impact in the United States and around the world. They support communities, help people improve their lives, and provide additional 'human capital' to organizations that serve disadvantaged people.
Tae Yoo
Service
Peace
People
World
Other
Additional
Corps
States
Impact
Disadvantaged
Support
Like
Around
Provide
Huge
Huge Impact
Improve
Human
Capital
Communities
Organizations
Help
Help People
Peace Corps
Groups
United
Lives
United States
Serve
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
Tammy Bruce
Free
Nation
Market
Our
States
Independent
Spirit
Free Market
Remarkable
Because
Grown
United
United States
Specifically
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
Tariq Ali
Experience
World
Political
Colonialism
States
Stations
Arab
Arab World
Outcome
Gulf
Imperial
Known
Client
Dictatorships
Intensive
Nationalist
Landscape
Petrol
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Will
Young
Society
Else
Back
States
Collapsed
Russia
More
Come
Because
Times
Than
Maybe
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Pattern
Less
Many
Here
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
Taylor Branch
Government
People
Despise
States
All Races
Citizenship
Opened
Because
Lot
Precisely
Common
Door
Races
Natures
Who
United
United States
Awful
Awful Lot
I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
Taylor Wilson
President
Meeting
States
Out
Dream
Make
Up
Ended
Jar
Garage
Star
United
United States
Started
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
Ted Cruz
People
Will
Nation
President
Incredible
Lobbyists
Our
States
Powerful
Powerful Force
Most
Force
Nominee
Iowa
Sovereignty
Where
Establishment
Republican
Sent
Next
Notice
Washington
Media
Chosen
United
United States
Resides
The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
Ted Deutch
Build
President
States
Trips
Economic
Through
Support
New
Does
Terrorists
Provide
Campaign
Authority
Europe
Fund
United
Homes
United States
Palestinian
Funds
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
Ted Deutch
States
Unanimity
Threat
Total
Facing
Most
Israel
Iran
Serious
United
United States
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
Ted Olson
Constitution
Rights
Marriage
Our
States
Most
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Repeatedly
American
Held
United
Fundamental
United States
United States Supreme Court
Fundamental Rights
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
Ted Turner
Life
Other
Back
Earth
States
Would
Would-Be
Thousands
Weapons
Russian
Fired
Arsenal
End
Targets
Them
United
United States
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
Ted Yoho
Strong
Will
Country
States
Able
Examples
Clear
Implementation
Mission
Partners
Greatest
Korea
Foreign
Trading
South
South Korea
Nations
Transition
Explicit
Successful
United
United States
Assistance
The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
Ted Yoho
Needs
Complacency
States
Weapons
Instead
Korea
Accountable
North
Rewarding
Beijing
Hold
China
United
United States
Program
The United States is NATO's leading military power, and President Barack Obama has required NATO to align behind a doctrine that has amounted to the most disastrous American foreign-policy debacle since Vietnam.
Terry Glavin
Power
NATO
Military
President
President Barack Obama
Align
States
Obama
Leading
Since
Disastrous
Most
Doctrine
American
Behind
Barack
Barack Obama
Vietnam
Required
Military Power
United
United States
In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Terry Glavin
War
Humanity
Genocide
Matters
Crimes
Criminal
States
Syria
Security
Security Council
Case
Council
Like
Court
Iraq
Against
Enforcement
International
It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.
Terry Glavin
NATO
States
Invaded
True
Term
Partners
Any
Afghanistan
Conventional
Meaning
Meaning Of
United
United States
When I ran for governor, I talked about the disenfranchisement of voters. I talked about the history that we've had. We've had a horrible history here in Virginia going back to 1901 - the poll tax, literacy tests, disenfranchisement of felons. We're one of the worst four states in America on allowing people back in with voting rights.
Terry McAuliffe
History
Rights
People
Voting
Virginia
Back
Ran
States
Worst
Horrible
About
Had
Allowing
Voters
Voting Rights
Talked
Tests
Governor
America
Going
Poll
Tax
Literacy
Four
Here
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
Terry Southern
First
Believe
States
Intriguing
About
Someone
Attention
Piece
Partisan
Wrote
Got
Came
His
Review
Green
Which
Loving
Novels
United
Henry
United States
A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.
Terry Wogan
Comedy
Face
Interview
States
Bit
About
Properly
Having
Stuff
Look
Talk
Talk Show
Does
Done
Famous
In-Depth
Barbara
Stand-Up Comedy
Show
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.
Terry Zwigoff
Time
Crazy
Welcome
Blame
France
States
Would
Stayed
Pretty
Had
He
Know
Him
Because
How
Celebrity
Handled
Did
Getting
Process
Anyway
Which
Moving
Mean
Really
Luckily
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles.
Tess Gerritsen
Angry
Me
Women
Sex
Men
Think
Complains
Neglected
Circles
States
Easier
Brother
About
Various
Because
Accepted
Female
Been
Male
Years
Encountered
Often
So Many Years
Asian
Asian-American
Much
Many
United
United States
Symbols
One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.
Thom Tillis
Health
Problems
Care
States
One Of The Problems
Cost
Health Care
Access
United
Fundamental
United States
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is 'all in.'
Thomas E. Donilon
Future
President
President Obama
States
Has-Been
Obama
Seeks
About
Clear
Been
United
United States
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