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The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.

There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

There are degrees of incompatibility, and there are more factors relevant to upholding democracy and human rights than the operation of neoliberal markets. Perhaps this point can be initially made by reference to the decline of democracy and the erosion of human rights within the United States since the 9/11 attacks.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in [Vladimir] Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.

There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

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.

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico.

The relationship between Canada and the United States serves as a model for the world. Our shared values, deep cultural ties, and strong integrated economies will continue to provide the basis for advancing our strong and prosperous partnership.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.