United States Quotations

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

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.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

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.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

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

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

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

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.

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.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

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.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

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

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

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.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

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

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.