Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Hagel

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

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.

Allen West

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

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

Stephen Lewis

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

Donald Rumsfeld

The United States isn't going to do anything That it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, We'll be capable of doing it.

In the southeastern United States, especially Georgia, termites are very active.

Dario Argento

I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.

Isabella Bird

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Irwin Shaw

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Clearly, this is the most challenging story we've ever had to manage, at least in the United States.

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Sofia Vergara

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

Michael Badnarik

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Henry Hazlitt

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.