United States Quotes
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
Lew Wasserman
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya Angelou
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America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.
Faith Popcorn
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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
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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
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
Barack Obama
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We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
Rafael dos Anjos
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
Edmund Randolph
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
Jack Straw
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We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."
Barack Obama
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The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy projects in Qatar, the United States and the Asia Pacific region, as well as our re-entry into Libya and our increased equity ownership in LUKOIL. We remain committed to replacing reserves at competitive finding and development costs.
Bill Berry R.E.M.
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Say another terrorist turned up in London, Bin Laden ... and he were to announce that new terrorist attacks were forthcoming against civilian sites in the United States
Igor Ivanov
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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
Adam Michnik
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Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.
Elijah Wood
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No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.
William H. Seward
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
Joseph Stalin
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I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.
Lajos Kossuth
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Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
Lee Myung-bak
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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. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
Albert Einstein
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Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
Ben Bernanke
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Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
Antonin Dvorak
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You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.
Edwidge Danticat
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Even when we were struggling, people had been reluctant to think that Iraq would turn out like Vietnam, a failure for the United States.
Andrew Kohut