United States Quotes
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Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
Dennis Hastert
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I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
Estelle
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I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
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This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.
Edwidge Danticat
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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
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We would like to see the United States play a more effective role to push the peace process forward.
Rafik Hariri
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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
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
Lincoln Kirstein
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You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
Arthur Laffer
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Madeleine Albright
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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.
Ben Bernanke
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Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.
Bill Tierney
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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
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If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
Barack Obama
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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
Madeleine Albright
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I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do it better than we do. It's not that they don't have food-poisoning incidents; it's that there are many fewer in proportion to the population.
Marion Nestle
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We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
Barack Obama
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In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
Ian Bremmer
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
Victor Hugo
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The president of the United States did not tamper with a witness.
Charles Ruff
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Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.
Addison Wiggin