Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fareed Zakaria

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.

Jimmy Carter

The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Joe Barton

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.

Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

John Garamendi

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

James Madison

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

John McCain

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

Josephine Baker

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Susan Rice

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

Susan Rice

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

Saxby Chambliss

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Laura Bush

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Mohammad Khatami

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.

Peter Eisenman

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

Robert Reich

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

Timothy Garton Ash

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Robert McNamara

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Spencer Bachus

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

Tim Ryan

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

Vicente Fox

Let me tell you that I love the United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Robert Payne

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Zora Neale Hurston

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade