United States Quotes:

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,

- Aaron Klein

source: "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Media, United States, Assault, Liberal Media

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

- Abba Eban

topic: Israel, United States, Arabia, Acknowledgement, Proclaiming

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

- Abraham Flexner

topic: War, United States, Dollars, Warships

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

topic: Shopping, United States, British, Shopkeepers

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.

topic: Real, Friendly, United States, User Friendly, American Way Of Life

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

- Adam Braun

topic: Passion, Collaboration, United States, Nonprofits, Scarce Resources

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

- Adam Fletcher

topic: United States, Patterns, Discrimination

Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

- Adam Kokesh

topic: Marine, Self, United States, Null, Enlisted

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

- Adam Rex

source: Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.7, A&C Black

topic: Country, United States, Too Much

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Allies, United States

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

topic: Circles, Mexican, United States, Undervalued

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, United States

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Thinking, Giving, United States

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

- Ahmet Davutoglu

source: Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

topic: Land, United States, Asia

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

- Akbar

topic: Progress, Might, United States

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

source: "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

topic: Memories, People, United States, Bad Memories

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

source: John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.11

topic: Government, America, United States

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

- Akio Morita

topic: Creating, United States, Lawyer, Busier

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

- Al Gore

topic: Reality, America, United States, Unreality

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

- Al Gore

topic: Decision, United States, Have Faith, Good Decision

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

- Al Gore

topic: Real, Climate, United States, Gore

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

- Al Green

topic: Pakistan, Allies, United States

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

- Alan Bersin

source: "Border 101". Article by Brady McCombs, tucson.com. October 24, 2010.

topic: People, United States, Mexico

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Clouds, Numbers, United States, Clouded

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Diversity, United States, May

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Zero, United States, Debt

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: White, People, United States

If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Fighting, United States, Opinion

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Long, United States, Unions

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

- Alec Baldwin

source: "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.

topic: Ideas, President, United States

I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

- Alec Baldwin

topic: Thinking, United States, Would Be, Time To Leave

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Friendship, Important, United States

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Years, President, United States, American President

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: War, Unions, United States, Jailer, Cold War

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

- Alex Berenson

topic: United States, Social, Contracts, Social Contract

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Law, Land, United States

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Christian, Support, United States, Founding Fathers Christian, Founding Fathers Religion

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Wise, President, United States, Magistrates

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

- Alexandra Kerry

source: Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

topic: Father, United States, Trails

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

- Ali Khamenei

topic: War, Israel, United States

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

- Alice Corbin Henderson

topic: War, Support, United States

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

- Alice Paul

topic: Men, Rights, United States, Jurisdiction, Equal Rights Amendment

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

topic: President, United States, States

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

- Allen West

topic: United States, States, Tyranny, Fertile Ground

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

- Allen West

topic: Military, Years, United States, United States Military

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

- Althea Gibson

topic: United States, Causes, Beats

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Numbers, Adults, United States

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

- Amy Goodman

topic: Military, People, United States

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Thinking, Russia, United States

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

- Andrew Dickson White

source: ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

topic: Country, United States, Transition

Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

- Andrew Gould

topic: Focus, United States, Needs

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

- Andrew Tobias

topic: Years, America, United States

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

- Andrew Young

topic: People, United States, Roles, Thermometers

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

- Andy Stern

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Issues, United States, Movement, Correlation

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

- Angela Braly

topic: Women, United States, Ceo

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

- Angela Carter

topic: Dream, Hollywood, United States, Mass Production

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

- Angela Merkel

topic: America, United States, Able

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Law, United States, World, International Law

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

- Anna Eshoo

topic: Successful, America, United States

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

- Anna Louise Strong

topic: Character, Practice, United States

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

- Anne McLellan

topic: People, United States, Disaster

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

- Annette Funicello

topic: Men, United States, Rate

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

- Anthony LaPaglia

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Careers, Actors, United States

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

- Anthony Mackie

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: United States, Would Be, Neighborhood, Magical Places

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

- Antonio Carlos Jobim

topic: Swings, United States, Cuba, Vicinity

In America, money takes the place of God.

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

topic: Money, America, United States

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Iraq, President, United States

We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Views, President, United States, Judicial Review, Unconstitutional

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Winning, United States, Cost

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

- Art Buchwald

topic: United States, Statistics, Buffalo

Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)

- Arthur E. Kennelly

topic: Science, Important, United States, Sociological, Universal Language

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

- Arthur Godfrey

source: Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

topic: Money, United States, Paying Taxes, Income Tax, Tax Day

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: Eyebrows, United States, British

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

- Arthur Laffer

topic: Class, United States, Prosperity, Lower Class

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

- Arthur Miller

topic: War, Two, United States

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

- Azim Premji

topic: Chinese, United States, Want, Protectionism

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

- Barack Obama

topic: United States, Care, Values, Rapid Change

The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?

- Barack Obama

topic: People, United States, Situation

I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: President, United States, Excited

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, United States, Looks

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Majority, United States

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, Political, United States, Inspirational Patriotic, American Patriotism

For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, United States, States, Best Is Yet To Come, 2012 Election

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Fighting, United States, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, Islam, United States, Islamic Faith

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

- Barbara Chase-Riboud

topic: Racism, United States, Generations

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

- Barbara Holland

source: Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

topic: Government, Years, United States, United States Government

...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Country, Immigration, United States, International Cooperation

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

- Barbara Lee

source: Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001

topic: Military, United States, Action, International Terrorism

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

- Barbara Mikulski

topic: Usa, United States, Ambassadors

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

- Barbara Mikulski

topic: Fighting, Years, United States, Hubble

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

- Barbara Tuchman

source: Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

topic: Law, United States, Contempt

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

- Barry Commoner

topic: War, Vision, United States

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

- Barry Eichengreen

topic: Jeans, Signatures, United States, Levi's, Big Mac

The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Cutting, Organization, United States, Anti-american

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

- Barry Levinson

topic: Laughing, United States, Actors

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

- Barry McCaffrey

topic: Drug, United States, Mexico

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

- Bell Hooks

topic: Library, United States, Institutions, Public Library, Subversive

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

- Ben Shahn

topic: Pregnancy, Desire, United States, Hoboken

After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

- Benjamin Bloom

source: Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”

topic: School, Years, United States, Access To Education

Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Blow, Dry, United States

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Powerful, Israel, United States

It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Men, President, United States, Berating

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

- Bernard C. Parks

source: "LAPD Chief Bernard Parks Discusses Loss of Granddaughter, Police Scandal". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2000.

topic: Gun, Weapons, United States

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

topic: Sight, People, United States, Wanting More

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Believe, United States, Needs

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

- Bianca Jagger

topic: United States, Death Penalty, Penalties

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

- Bill Frist

topic: Florida, People, United States

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

- Bill Richardson

topic: Two, Together, United States

Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.

- Bill Tierney

topic: Lacrosse, United States, Way

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Country, Order, United States, Great Country

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: United States, Compromise, Indispensable

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

- Bob Dylan

topic: President, United States, Naked

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

- Bob Matsui

topic: Thinking, Important, United States

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

- Bob Menendez

source: Source: www.finalcall.com

topic: Mean, America, United States, Times Of Crisis

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

- Bob Ney

topic: Jobs, Oil, United States, Arctic

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: United States, Tests, Process

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

- Brent Scowcroft

topic: Believe, Thinking, United States

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

- Brent Scowcroft

topic: Memories, Usa, United States

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

- Brian Mulroney

topic: Japan, United States, Germany, West Germany, Trading Partners

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

- Brian Setzer

topic: United States, Labels, Bass, Rockabilly

I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.

- Brian Williams

topic: President, Vices, United States, Vice President

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

- Brigid Schulte

topic: Mother, Father, United States

Fox News has learned some United States investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the United States, who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11, 2001.

- Brit Hume

topic: Believe, September 11, United States, September 11 2001

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

- Bruce Brown

topic: United States, Needs, Best Education, Education System

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

- Bruce Catton

topic: War, History, United States

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

- Bruce Feiler

topic: College, Japan, United States

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

- Buffalo Bill

source: Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Soldier, United States, Proud

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent and certainly not the president of the United States.

- Burt Bacharach

source: "Triumphant U2 steal Carey's Grammys glory" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

topic: Girlfriend, President, United States

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

- C. Edwin Baker

source: C. Edwin Baker (2014). “Advertising and a Democratic Press”, p.99, Princeton University Press

topic: Government, Media, United States, Advertisers

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Simple, United States, Care

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

- Carl Schurz

source: Carl Schurz (1969). “December 13, 1870-February 27, 1874”

topic: Country, People, United States, Tropical

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

topic: Organization, America, United States

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Latin, America, United States

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

- Carolyn Maloney

source: "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

topic: Adults, United States, Nine, Checking Accounts, Financial Services

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Pregnancy, Years, United States

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

- Chad Coleman

source: "Q&A – Chad L. Coleman (Tyreese)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

topic: Army, Years, United States, Four Years, United States Army

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: United States, States, United, Episcopalians

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

- Charles Bass

topic: Government, Design, United States, Diversion

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

- Charles Bass

topic: America, United States, Nuclear, Parity

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

- Charles Evans Hughes

topic: Law, United States, World

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.

- Charles H. Percy

topic: Government, United States, May

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

- Charles Hamilton Houston

topic: Race, United States, Problem

If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: President, Nominations, United States, Cronies

I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

- Charles Lichenstein

topic: Trying, United States, Would Be, Ussr

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

- Charles Rangel

topic: United States, States, United

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

- Chauncey Depew

topic: Government, United States, Lawyer, United States Government

Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

- Cheikh Anta Diop

topic: United States, States, Integration

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

- Cher

topic: Smart, President, United States

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

- Chester A. Arthur

source: Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Country, Islands, United States, Supply And Demand

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

- Chester A. Arthur

source: Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Friendship, United States, Advancement

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

- Chris Chocola

topic: United States, Significant, Congress

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Strong, Long, United States, Trading Partners

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

- Chris Christie

topic: Mean, President, United States, Pining

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

- Chris Christie

topic: America, United States, Would Be, Fiscal Cliff

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

- Chris Matthews

topic: Office, President, United States

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

- Chris Van Hollen

topic: Cancer, United States, Stories, Medical Advances, Success Stories

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

- Christiane Amanpour

topic: People, United States

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

- Christopher Atkins

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, United States, Nudity

I think the United States is way behind the times.

- Christopher Atkins

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, United States, Way

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Usa, Numbers, United States

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Self, Creative, United States

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Lying, Issues, United States

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

- Christopher Flavin

topic: Impact, Oil, United States, Oil Consumption, Biofuels

I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.

- Christopher Isherwood

topic: Country, Mistake, United States

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

- Chuck D

topic: Thinking, Enemy, United States, Public Enemies

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

- Chuck Grassley

topic: Nuts, Political, United States

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

- Chuck Grassley

topic: Drug, United States, Would Be, Drug Companies, Prescription Drugs

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

- Chuck Hagel

topic: Democracy, United States, Found

I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.

- Chuichi Nagumo

topic: Sleep, United States, Giants

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

- Cindy Sheehan

topic: War, President, United States, Chavez, Fighting Terrorism

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

- Cindy Sheehan

topic: Country, United States, Needs

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

- Claire McCaskill

topic: Country, United States, Tvs

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

- Clark Kerr

source: Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press

topic: United States, World, Higher Education

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

- Claude Pepper

topic: Country, Thinking, United States

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

- Cofer Black

source: Cofer Black during September 11 Commission Hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2004.

topic: Long, People, United States

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

- Cofer Black

topic: War, United States, Osama Bin Laden

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

- Cofer Black

source: "Iranian group tests U.S. terrorism policy" by Michael R. Gordon and Douglas Jehl, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2003.

topic: Government, United States, Doe, State Government, United States Government

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

- Colin Powell

topic: United States, Roles, Discussion

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

- Colum McCann

topic: Years, United States, Rags, Headbands

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

- Columba Bush

topic: Children, President, United States

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Community, United States, Nuclear, Persian Gulf

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Together, United States, Matter

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Principles, United States

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Strong, Giving, United States

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: Race, Usa, United States, Race Relations

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

- Corrine Brown

topic: Usa, Immigration, United States

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

- Craig T. Nelson

topic: People, United States, Wealth

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

- Cynthia McKinney

topic: Military, Giving, United States, Military Bases

The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

- Dahr Jamail

source: Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

topic: Cities, America, United States, Overkill, Guernica

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

- Dan Kildee

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

topic: Agreement, Support, United States, Free Trade, American Workers

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

- Dan Kildee

source: "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

topic: Agreement, United States, Pillars, Trade Agreements, United States Economy

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

- Dan Rather

source: Twitter post from May 19, 2012

topic: Law, United States, Definitions, Above The Law, American Tradition

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks

- Dana Perino

topic: Government, Nsa, United States, United States Government

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

- Daniel H. Wilson

source: "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

topic: Japan, People, United States, Changes Over Time

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

- Daniel Hannan

topic: Europe, United States, Next

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

- Daniel Johnston

topic: United States, Trouble, States

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

- Daniel Keys Moran

topic: United States, Welfare, States

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

- Daniel Ortega

topic: Country, Uprising, United States

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

- Darrell Issa

source: Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.

topic: People, United States, Want