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America's strength in the past has been our ability to bring family members to join other family members in the United States and to look at skills but not have it be the only determination of how you get here.
Chris Murphy
Strength
Family
You
Determination
Past
Other
Our
States
Members
Has-Been
Ability
Only
Join
Look
How
Been
America
Get
Family Members
In The Past
Skills
United
United States
Bring
Here
If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.
Chris Roberson
Rights
People
Law
Defined
States
Those
About
Someone
Something
More
Something New
New
Well
Fairly
Talking
Arrangements
Least
Existing
Discussion
Often
Subtle
Which
Far
Produce
Then
Creating
Who
Works
United
United States
Copyright
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
Chris Rock
Sports
People
Black
Final
States
Dominate
Population
United
United States
Four
I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.
Chris Rock
Love
Me
President
States
Kid
Wanted
Happened
United
United States
The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.
Chris Sacca
Nation
Experiment
Believe
Earth
States
Democratic
Make
Greatest
Grand
Us
Special
United
United States
Things
I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.
Chris Sacca
Think
Else
States
Has-Been
About
Risk
Exceptional
Institutions
Make
Principles
Genuinely
Been
Traditions
Norms
America
Anything
Anything Else
Hard
Serious
United
United States
United States Of America
This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.
Chris Van Hollen
Government
Try
Congress
Action
States
Alike
Out
Find
Taking
Taliban
Democrats
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Root
Working
Body
Bin
Al
United
United States
Al-Qaeda
Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
Chris Van Hollen
Health
Food
Day
Home
Every Day
Roof
College
Face
Every
Too
Saving
States
Out
Table
Between
Over
Heads
Reach
Health Insurance
Insurance
Up
Families
Owning
Just
Far
Choice
United
United States
Stark
Buying
In Sweden, if a player has the ball, and you're running across the line of vision, you would never call for the ball. In the United States, if you're open, you're screaming.
Christen Press
You
Vision
States
Would
Running
Never
Open
Call
Ball
Line
Screaming
Sweden
Across
United
United States
Player
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
Christiane Amanpour
World
Country
Important
Every
Other
States
Simply
Most
Affects
The Most Important
Which
United
United States
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.
Christina Romer
Health
You
Class
Problem
Prosperity
Care
Energy
Think
Deficit
States
Obama
Running
Restoring
About
Economic
Perennial
Clean
Clean Energy
He
Budget
Budget Deficit
Like
Talked
Sort
Health Care
Dealing
Issues
Lot
Candidate
Middle
Middle Class
Transition
United
United States
Need
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
Christine Todd Whitman
Perspective
First
Nothing
Congress
Down
States
Some
Had
Taken
Put
Idea
Voted
Gore
Protocol
Clinton
Up
Senate
Bill
Bill Clinton
Al
United
Al Gore
United States
United States Senate
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
Christopher Hitchens
Queen
Welfare
Thought
Additionally
Immediate
Say
States
Toronto
More
Somewhat
Ontario
Polite
Version
North
North America
America
Currency
Regime
Etiquette
Reassuring
United
United States
Street
Elizabeth
Associations
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Christopher Hitchens
Opportunity
Too
Say
States
Bored
About
Various
Fact
True
Get
Land
They Say
United
United States
A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.
Christy Turlington
People
Country
Changed
States
Since
Greatest
Lot
Infected
HIV
United
United States
Numbers
Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.
Chuck Fleischmann
Time
Nation
Address
States
Some
Point
Nobody
Got
Fiscal
Woes
Debt
Wants
United
United States
Default
If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
Chuck Grassley
Strategy
States
Would
Would-Be
Could
Pricing
Outside
Re-Evaluate
Drug Companies
Forced
Access
American
Legally
Then
Companies
United
United States
Prescription
Prescription Drugs
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
Chuck Grassley
States
Nuts
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Been
Lot
Senate
Elected
United
United States
United States Senate
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
Education
Strength
Character
People
Destruction
Sum
Sum Total
Our
States
Our People
Weapons
Total
Mass
Mass Destruction
Gold
Fort
United
United States
I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
Claire McCaskill
Time
Me
Country
States
TV
Only
Had
Left
Up
Senator
Same
Same Time
Against
Far
Far Right
United
Aware
United States
Right
You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
Claire McCaskill
You
Pay
Fighting
Recipients
Our
Soldiers
States
Responsible
Security
Able
About
Beat
Know
Dead
Got
Debt
Want
Either
Social
Who
Bills
Social Security
United
Ever
United States
I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.
Clara Shih
Family
Class
School
Language
Hong Kong
Spent
States
Born
Impediment
Students
Had
Most
Kong
Chicago
Childhood
Placed
English
Elementary
Elementary School
United
United States
Second
Program
Speech
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.
Clara Shih
Teacher
Art
School
Mother
Engineer
Father
Hong Kong
Back
Back To School
Once
States
She
Became
Kong
Came
Math
Worked
Electrical
Certified
United
Professor
United States
Here
Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Clemantine Wamariya
Me
First
Field
States
Memorial
Trip
Brought
Contact
Like
American
Grade
Holocaust
Many
United
United States
Millennials
Museum
While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.
Clint Smith
Black
States
Part
While
Means
United
United States
Violence
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell
Peace
Will
Power
Met
Lose
Lost
Action
States
Security
Security Council
Unavoidable
Purposes
Council
Demands
Also
Just
Legitimacy
Regime
Enforced
Should
Doubted
United
United States
Resolutions
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