Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

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.

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

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Harold Bloom

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

Nathan Deal

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

Katie Couric

The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

Harold Rosenberg

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Patty Murray

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Leon Panetta

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

Leon Panetta

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

Leon Panetta

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Preet Bharara

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Mary Roach

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

P. T. Barnum

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess...

George McGovern

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

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.

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.

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.

Michel Hazanavicius

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

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.

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.