United-states Quotes

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a count...

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

You might have liked the United States more,”” she said. “They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaces...

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think...

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or s...

Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' ...

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Isra...

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into ...

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which i...

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'sp...

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hosti...

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even ma...

Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countri...

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the...

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there i...

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that ther...

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when...

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about h...

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my f...

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean ...

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, li...

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last su...

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yell...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own coun...

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way...

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European,...

Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted b...

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

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

The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the m...

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive ...

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beau...

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, to...

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that ...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact t...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, t...

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the rece...

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Repr...

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionarie...

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and...

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient wit...

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record...

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard h...

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyon...

Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not t...

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefe...

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a...

Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary ...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing an...

During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her back...

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian st...

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; whil...

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact ab...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Ma...

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when ...

The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal an...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is ...