United States Quotes
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The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
Nat Hentoff
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The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
Barbara Holland
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We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.
James Hetfield Metallica
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We United States are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.
Bill Clinton
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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
Eric Holder
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Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.
Bruce D. Porter
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
Eric Holder
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Using 1990 as the base year, Canada's emissions are now 24 percent higher, while the United States is up by 14 percent. The United States' performance is superior to Canada's, even though it is outside Kyoto.
Elizabeth May
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The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
Brigid Schulte
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Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
George Washington
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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.
Bernard Lewis
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Antipsychotic drugs were a major factor in reducing the number of people living in mental hospitals in the United States, from over 500,000 in 1955 to fewer than 100,000 in 1996.
Bessel van der Kolk
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In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.
Eve Ensler
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Donald Trump suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States international law when it comes to torture.
Hillary Clinton
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I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
Gertrude Atherton
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Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
Hassan Nasrallah
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The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.
Jimmy Carter
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As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
Benjamin Rush
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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar
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The United States is the laughingstock of the world.
Scott Ritter
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There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the colour of my skin.
Tiger Woods
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
Thomas Carlyle
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The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.
Bill Clinton