Best 2129 quotes in «united states quotes» category

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

Nothing is impossible in the United States.

Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it clear that he cannot accept those favors.

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.

One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.