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“They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves”
Calvin Coolidge
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”
Milton Friedman
“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.”
Oliver North
“But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”
Bob Dylan
“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.”
Bill Clinton
“The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.”
Dennis Miller
“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 United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”
Deng Xiaoping