Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Josephine Baker

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

Mahathir Mohamad

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

John Bolton

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

John Bolton

There's no such thing as the United Nations,

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

We will be requesting his extradition from the United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Laura Bush

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

Robert Reich

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

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.

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

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