Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Kojo Annan

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

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.

Rose Kennedy

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

Vicente Fox

Let me tell you that I love the United States.

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.

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.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

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.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

James A. Garfield

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Hillary Clinton

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

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.

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.