Best 2129 quotes in «united states quotes» category

I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

I think that asserting that former President Obama wasn't born in the United States was just the height of irresponsibility, of course. And Donald Trump corrected that one. There are others that have yet to be corrected.

I think that [Obama] sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool.

I think that when you sequester yourself, when you put yourself into another area where you can't be part of the main traditional culture you're limiting your possibilities in the United States and I think that's one problem.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States business anyway are the ones you don't hear too much about.

I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules. You have to operate by the rules of the system, and if you don't, if you pull rank, then you lose all your credibility.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is -- we know terrorists are barbaric, and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.

It is in the interests of all of us - the United States, China and the rest of the world - to make sure that the rules of the road are upheld. These rules and norms are part of the foundation of regional stability, and they have allowed nations across the region, including China, to grow and prosper.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

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.

It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.