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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

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Chris Matthews
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 17
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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I truly believe that America`s greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn`t treat us fairly.
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I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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