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Being the U.S. champion is a big deal for me. Knowing that my ancestors built this country, it's kind of like, the Irish were treated badly in this country for a long time, with a lot of tacky Irish stereotypes, so to me, it's kind of like a bragging right.

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.

Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.

We will not allow any group to use our soil to launch a terror attack against any other country. Bangladesh is no longer an exporter of terrorism, nor is it a silk route for arms smuggling as it once was.

I wear a size 16 shoe, which isn't too bad. I can't usually go into a store and buy them, but there are catalogs throughout the country for big and tall people that I can order from.

It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican.

When I travel and speak across the country, I often tell college students that we are making a significant mistake when we say to each other that this criminal justice of ours is broken. To say it's broken would be to suggest that it was well designed and had good intentions from the start.

I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that government abuses are stopped or redressed. That's far from the truth, and it's an awful thing to experience first-hand.

When a film is released, anywhere in the country, exactly in the same place people laugh, cry, get bored, what is that, but commonality.

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.

This politics of double standards has brought the country to the brink of disaster.

We as a country should thrive on the principle of diversity in unity.

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.