Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Henry L. Stimson

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

Well, yeah we do. We've got friends all over the United States.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

We're tighter as a unit than we've ever been.

Ram Dass

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Ram Dass

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

David Bohm

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

David Ben-Gurion

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

Condoleezza Rice

A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

Condoleezza Rice

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

Isabel Allende

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

Jack Osbourne

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

Marianne Williamson

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Albert J. Nock

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

Albert Camus

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Albert Camus

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Albert Camus

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Daniel Keys Moran

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

Daniel Johnston

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

Douglas Brinkley

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

Dick Gregory

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

Anais Nin

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Chuck Hagel

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

Andrew Carnegie

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Ameen Rihani

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

Alice Walker

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.