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“Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.”
Dan Quayle
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
George W. Bush
“Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.”
George Bernard Shaw
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass”
John Marshall
“If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?”
Richard M. Nixon
“What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.”
Lewis H. Lapham
“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
“The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons.”
W. C. Fields
“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”
Henry Clay
“I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.”
Chester A. Arthur
