Bernard Lewis Quotes
The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.
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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.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
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We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.
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I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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In talking to Mark, he gives me the impression that he thinks he can go and we'll work towards that.
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I spoke last night with many of my counterparts and without exception there was overwhelming support for this action by the military coalition consisting of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.
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I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.
