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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door vervreemdebelg
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Belgium is not a class society, it is an elitist society.
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It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts - that out of many, we are truly one.
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It's a place of keeping up apppearances.
Where you have the legal obligation to keep the pavement clean in front of your house.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
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Where people queue by number because they are not civilized enough to queue without.
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This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.
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Where what you have defines who you are and what you have done defines what you will do.
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I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
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It's a country of monopolies, friends' politics and corruption.
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Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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It's a country of repression and inbred shame.
It's a country where people educate their children the catholic way because it is how the family does it.
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Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.
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It a country where the skill of a tradesperson is measured by their diploma and the size of their work van.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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It's a country full of judgement and prejudice.
It's a country where people jump to conclusions.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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It's a country that is because it suited the powers that were at the time.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Bless the Liberals or by now it'd be a papal state.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population.
