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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

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 point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

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

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.