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According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion. -- Monica Crowley
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. -- Russ Feingold
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. -- Monica Crowley
Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama. -- John F. Kerry
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. -- Newt Gingrich
The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited. -- Candice Millard
American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view. -- Jim DeMint
We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism. -- Lisa Ling
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. -- Ron Fournier
We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values. -- Rick Perry
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. -- Maureen Dowd
It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic. -- Ron Fournier
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business. -- Fran Tarkenton
A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America. -- Megyn Kelly
More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism. -- Gordon S. Wood
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. -- Barack Obama
The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America. -- Russ Feingold
The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table. -- Danny Glover
There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous. -- Al Franken
Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots. -- Mohammad Marandi
America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again. -- Bobby Jindal
There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea. -- Vladimir Putin
I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. -- Jim DeMint
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. -- William Gibson
I think where [Donald Trump] loses most hawkish republicans is when he talking about how much he likes [Vladimir] Putin. That should make any person who believe in the American exceptionalism, incredibly uncomfortable. -- John McCain

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