Quotes About United States

#1. I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election ... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!

George W. Malone

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

Vladimir Putin

#9. The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Ben Shahn

#10. Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Albert Einstein

#11. As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

Brian Setzer

#12. The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

Noam Chomsky

#13. A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

Ishmael Reed

#14. I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

Hugo Chavez

#15. The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

Peter T. King

#16. Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection ...

George Washington

#17. The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

Harry S. Truman

#18. Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.

James Costos

#19. As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

William Eldridge Odom

#20. The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.

Pete Hamill

#21. Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Margaret Atwood

#22. The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world's population but houses nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners.

Gabor Mate

#23. The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Colin Powell

#24. And more than that, the United States of America was a whole new type of nation. Nothing like America had ever been tried before in the history of the world.

Brad Meltzer

#25. In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

Morley Safer

#26. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#27. All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come here and can enjoy privileges that were fought for by African Americans over several generations.

Danai Gurira

#28. I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

John Breaux

#29. I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

John Edwards

#30. According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Leonard Boswell

#32. People say "the Americans" or "the United States," as if it was a kind of bloc. It's not. There's a lot of people thinking differently from other people in the U.S. This is very interesting to me and very important.

Costa-Gavras

#33. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

Jon Weisman

#34. That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Dick Cheney

#35. The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

Glenn Greenwald

#36. We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress.

Eliot Engel

#37. Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Bernie Sanders

#38. And this is why I have concluded that although every racial, ethnic, and religious group in the United States claims to want a piece of the American dream, there is no group that apologizes more for its success than black people.

Lawrence Otis Graham

#39. Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

Charles Duhigg

#40. By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush

#41. The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

Marc Ostrofsky

#42. The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Billy Higgins

#43. A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Stewart Udall

#44. I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.

Mike Krzyzewski

#45. We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

Dan Aykroyd

#46. In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

Barbara Demick

#47. Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.

Newt Gingrich

#48. The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#49. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

John Henrik Clarke

#50. All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

Randall Kennedy

#51. Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#52. There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world.

Susan Rice

#53. The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Paul Craig Roberts

#54. Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States ...

Pat Buchanan

#55. 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.

Jeffrey Goldberg

#56. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)

Judith C. Waller

#57. The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

Hideki Tojo

#58. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S. Truman

#59. A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton Christensen

#60. I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

Robert Pattinson

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

Harvey Weinstein

#62. 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

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

Cynthia McKinney

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Chris Hedges

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

Bobby Fischer

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Townsend Harris

#79. 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

#80. 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

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

Colin Powell

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

Josephine Baker

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

James K. Polk

#84. Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States

James C. Collins

#85. 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

#86. 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

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

Paul A. Volcker

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

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

Bill O'Reilly

#98. 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

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

Alain Juppe

#100. John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

Maureen O'Hara