Quotes and Sayings About United States
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,
-- Aaron KleinSource : "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
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Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
-- Abraham Flexner -
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...
-- Ada Louise HuxtableSource : "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.
-- Adam Kokesh -
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The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.
-- Adam RexSource : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.7, A&C Black
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
-- Adam Schiff -
Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
-- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
-- Ahmet DavutogluSource : Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.
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Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
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We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.11
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
-- Akio Morita -
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.
-- Al Gore -
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
-- Al Gore -
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Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.
-- Al Gore -
Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.
-- Al Green -
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
-- Alan BersinSource : "Border 101". Article by Brady McCombs, tucson.com. October 24, 2010.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
-- Alan Greenspan -
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
-- Alan Greenspan -
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.
-- Albert Einstein -
If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
-- Alec BaldwinSource : "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.