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“For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.”
“As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not on...”
“Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.”
“Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.”
“Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compe...”
“President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.”
“Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.”
“Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American energy independence, but the facts are, every barrel we p...”
“I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.”
“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”
“The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.”
“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.”
“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and...”
“Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black ...”
“From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.”
“The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.”
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
