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Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power to protect the guilty than to persecute the innocent. And its motive is not crazy totalitarian utopianism, it's motive is repressive kleptocracy. To steal and to use the powers of the state to protect theft.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war on South Vietnam which destroyed South Vietnam's rural society. The South was devastated. But now anyone who opposed this atrocity is regarded as having defended North Vietnam. And that's part of the effort to present the war as if it were a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam with the United States helping the South. Of course it's fabrication. But it's "official truth" now.

Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We've become a lunatic asylum.

Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here... and that this country was to supply the financial power to an international superstate.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

My fellow Republicans, when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be huge.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

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 other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.