United States Quotes
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Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
Buzz Aldrin -
The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
Benigno Aquino III
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There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
Angela Davis -
The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.
Paddy Ashdown -
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 -
Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
Buzz Aldrin -
The president of the United States did not tamper with a witness.
Charles Ruff
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The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon -
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 -
If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.
Jacob Hacker -
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
Joseph Stalin
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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 -
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 -
We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.
Bob Ross -
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
Lincoln Kirstein -
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
Ariel Pink -
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
Joseph Stalin -
It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce.
Frank Keating -
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".
Edward Bernays -
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
Apolo Ohno