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1. “America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”
Camille Paglia
America, Violence, Nature, Society, Individualism
5. “I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.” Camille Paglia Education, America, Politics, Society, Ideology
8. “I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.” Jimmy Carter Politics, Reform, America, Awareness, Future
10. “What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.” Jimmy Carter Guantanamo, Justice, Terrorism, America, Morality
16. “America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.” Jimmy Carter America, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Immigration
18. “Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.” Jimmy Carter Equality, Law, Justice, Freedom, America
21. “Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we’ve had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.” Jimmy Carter Immigration, Adventure, America, Spirit, Identity
24. “Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.” Jimmy Carter September 11, Patriotism, Politics, Freedom, America
29. “I’ve seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.” Arnold Schwarzenegger Opportunity, Dreams, Success, America, Determination
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1. “America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”
Camille Paglia America, Violence, Nature, Society, Individualism
5. “I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.”
Camille Paglia Education, America, Politics, Society, Ideology
8. “I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.”
Jimmy Carter Politics, Reform, America, Awareness, Future
10. “What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.”
Jimmy Carter Guantanamo, Justice, Terrorism, America, Morality
16. “America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.”
Jimmy Carter America, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Immigration
18. “Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.”
Jimmy Carter Equality, Law, Justice, Freedom, America
21. “Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we’ve had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.”
Jimmy Carter Immigration, Adventure, America, Spirit, Identity
24. “Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.”
Jimmy Carter September 11, Patriotism, Politics, Freedom, America
29. “I’ve seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger Opportunity, Dreams, Success, America, Determination
