United-states Quotes

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...

The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli governm...

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as i...

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudice...

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democrac...

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the Whit...

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord...

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the Uni...

Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen?" Clement asked.Emily shook her head. "Gertrude's been hurt and so she's ...

Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Can...

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious se...

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ge...

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progr...

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are intere...

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the at...

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for...

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...