Quotes About The United States

#1. I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

Will McDonough

#2. Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

Leon Panetta

#3. I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

Michael Moore

#4. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

Chalmers Johnson

#5. U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Bill Gates

#6. To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

Patricia Arquette

#7. My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Bolton

#8. You'd think that being the 39th president of the United States would be sufficient enough to establish a lasting personal brand.

Susan Chritton

#9. This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

John Sununu

#10. My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

Xavier Becerra

#11. It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.

Richard Rodriguez

#12. Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

Paul Cellucci

#13. When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#14. I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states ... I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party ... I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts ... They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

Pat Robertson

#15. John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people ... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Joe Lieberman

#16. Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.

John Culberson

#17. Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Kai Bird

#18. But when a Saudi owned media company is prepared to both publicly praise the words of Benjamin Netanyahu tells you just how bad a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran would be.

Anonymous

#19. Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.

George W. Bush

#20. The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

Rafael Cruz

#21. The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.

Thomas Woods

#22. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

Paul Krugman

#24. The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah.

Edward Said

#25. We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

#26. If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

John F. Kennedy

#27. It's my first trip as president of the United States.

George W. Bush

#28. It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.

Barack Obama

#29. Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

Paul Ormerod

#30. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#31. The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

#32. I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

Henry Rollins

#33. 2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States.

Sam Quinones

#34. The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.

Gar Alperovitz

#35. The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.

Joe Biden

#36. Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

Howard Baker

#37. I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.

Mitt Romney

#38. The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Martin Winterkorn

#39. Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Andrew P. Harris

#40. The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.

Brigham Young

#41. We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ...

Jose Saramago

#42. PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.

John Seabrook

#43. I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Thomas A. Edison

#44. I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

Donald Trump

#45. The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

#46. Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

Barbara Kingsolver

#47. I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

Ibrahim Hooper

#48. It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

Mark Foley

#49. I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

Michael Moore

#50. I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Robert M. Gates

#51. The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world - an average of 89 per 100 people,

Chris Hedges

#52. I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

Condoleezza Rice

#53. I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.

Greg Lake

#54. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer

#55. The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#56. The Japanese Navy not only outgunned American forces in the Pacific but proved more powerful in that ocean than the combined navies of the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.

James M. Scott

#57. In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Linda Ronstadt

#58. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

John Perkins

#59. Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

Robin Cook

#60. The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

#61. We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Anthony Weiner

#62. I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Joe Biden

#63. I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Colin Powell

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

Josephine Baker

#65. I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

James K. Polk

#66. Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#67. Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

James K. Morrow

#68. It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

Paul A. Volcker

#69. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#70. People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Noam Chomsky

#71. I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.

Jeb Bush

#72. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Harvey Weinstein

#73. My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#74. Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

Ben Affleck

#75. The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Fareed Zakaria

#76. Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

Oliver North

#77. Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

Robert Ballard

#78. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Winston S. Churchill

#79. All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

Bill Cosby

#80. I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

Victor Hugo

#81. It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

Tulsi Gabbard

#82. The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

Bob Beckel

#83. Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

Lee Corso

#84. The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

#85. Into the emotional scene which followed I need not go in detail. You will have witnessed much the same sort of thing in the pictures, when the United States Marines arrive in the nick of time to relieve the beleaguered garrison. I may sum it up by saying that he fawned upon me.

P.G. Wodehouse

#86. There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Preston Manning

#87. Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential.

Dean Koontz

#88. Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States. America made 80 percent of the world's movies and 85 percent of its cars.

Bill Bryson

#89. It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

George Clooney

#90. It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

Bill O'Reilly

#91. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.

Horace Gray

#92. And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they're the majority owners.

Alex Jones

#93. The influenza epidemic eventually claimed more than six million lives, but in the United States, at least, it had run its course by late in the year.

Dean Jensen

#94. In the United States especially, politics and economics don't mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

Steven D. Levitt

#95. Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

C. Robert Kehler

#96. Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future ...

Mitt Romney

#97. We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.

Condoleezza Rice

#98. The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.

Pope Francis

#99. We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was the work of the best and brightest of the entire European continent. They were greedy.

Paul Johnson

#100. The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings.

Wole Soyinka