United-states Quotes

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 ...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on ut...

Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a me...

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary soc...

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what ...

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he de...

A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember ...

[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. On...

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer c...

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper an...

Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council...

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defende...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobb...

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another count...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities ...

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in thi...

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Irania...

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insur...

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute ...

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of ...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheere...

When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funer...

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Ira...

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable ...

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terr...

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everythin...

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the count...

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life...

Public men in America are too public. Too accessible. This sitting on the stoop and being 'just folk...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the...

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooli...

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing ...

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interest...

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich...

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on ...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common pheno...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking e...

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be ...

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was w...

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal...