Usa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The world [is] now seeing might is right.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
-- Al Neuharth -
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.
-- Aly Raisman -
I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.
-- Aly Raisman -
There's nothing better than going out there and seeing USA on your leotard.
-- Aly Raisman -
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
-- Ann Coulter -
Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
-- Ann Coulter -
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!
-- Arundhati Roy -
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
-- B. B. King -
Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.
-- Barack Obama -
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
-- Barack Obama -
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.
-- Barry Lynes -
Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
-- Ben Affleck -
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.
-- Ben Dreyfuss -
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
-- Bill Bruford -
The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.
-- Bill Maher -
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
-- Bob Barker -
It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.
-- Bob Dylan -
The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
-- Boomer Esiason -
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.
-- Brooke Burke -
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
-- Butch Otter -
Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
-- Cesar Romero -
Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.
-- Chloe Sutton -
Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.
-- Chris Hayes -
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
-- Christine Pelosi -
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 -
% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.
-- Claudia Jones -
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.
-- Corrine Brown -
I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
-- Dave Beard -
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.
-- David Frum -
In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.
-- David Walker -
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
-- Dean Acheson -
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
-- Dennis Lehane -
The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.
-- Diane Watson -
I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.
-- Dick Armey -
Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.
-- Dick Cheney -
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.
-- Dick Cheney -
After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,
-- Dmitry Rogozin -
Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
-- Douglas Wilder -
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
-- Earl Browder -
In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
-- Eddie Izzard -
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
-- Elia Kazan -
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
-- Ely Culbertson -
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
-- Emanuel Celler -
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
-- Eric Liu -
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
-- Evan Sayet -
Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.
-- Evan Sayet -
You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.
-- Ezra Klein -
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.
-- Gabrielle Union -
I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.
-- Gail Devers -
One day they might. I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do so. But what I am saying is that this is a country that has been brutalised for decades by this appalling regime and that the restoration of that country to its own people, the possibility of their deciding their future... and indeed the way in which they go about thier lives, ultimately, yes, that will be a better place for people in Iraq.
-- Geoff Hoon -
Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .
-- George Lee Butler -
USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.
-- George W. Bush -
Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.
-- George W. Bush -
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means
-- Gordon Cooper -
Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.
-- Gordon Cooper -
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
-- Gore Vidal -
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken -
I don't think there is much American music.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
-- Harry Belafonte -
The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes.
-- Harry Belafonte -
The issue for the major companies is how, is how when and where to make their content online. So you look at these major cable companies, whether it's Disney or Time Warner, News Corp., ESPN, USA, they're being very very careful, about making their content available over the internet, and they're trying to figure it out.
-- Harry E. Sloan -
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
-- Helen Thomas -
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
-- Helmut Jahn -
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
-- Immortal Technique -
Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.
-- Iqbal Sacranie -
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.
-- Irene Khan -
I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
-- Jackie Collins -
From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.
-- Jacob Lew -
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
-- James Bovard -
USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.
-- James Roday -
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
-- Jason Patric -
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
-- Jeb Bush -
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
-- Jeremy Jackson -
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.
-- Jeremy Scahill -
[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.
-- Jerry Springer -
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
-- Jerzy Kosinski
