Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Alain Juppe

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Edward Snowden

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Vicki Saporta

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

David Rose

When we have consent decree with the city, we've got an obligation to ensure compliance, ... We've got to do what we can to enforce it.

Charles Canady

Meaningful, constitutional parental consent laws are designed to help and protect minors. Today, we are voting to uphold those laws.

Chen Yunlin

People will not be satisfied if their wishes are not met. They will not consent to prolonged obstruction of cross-Strait links.

Jack Straw

only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Tai Park

The government is either going to consent to a retrial because the jury verdict was tainted by potentially perjured testimony or the government is going to have to explain to the court why the prejudiced testimony was harmless -- in other words, that the testimony did not influence the jury's verdict.

Gerrit Smith

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.