Best 2129 quotes in «united states quotes» category

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

[President] needs to engage them in a very personal way. And he needs to tell them that this is something that America, the United States of America, needs. Not Republican. It's not Democrat. It's America.

President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Sarah Palin knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.

So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

Sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least, partially.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

The American Dream is still alive and well… it’s just no longer in the United States.