United States famous quotes
05-15-2025
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,
-- Aaron Klein -
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.
-- Abba Eban -
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 -
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 Huxtable -
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.
-- Adam Braun -
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 -
The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.
-- Adam Rex -
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 -
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.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 Davutoglu -
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.
-- Akbar -
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
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 -
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 Bersin -
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 -
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 -
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 Baldwin -
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
-- Alec Baldwin -
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
-- Alex Berenson -
The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
-- Alexandra Kerry -
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
-- Ali Khamenei -
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
-- Alice Corbin Henderson -
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
-- Alice Paul -
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
-- Allen West -
I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
-- Allen West -
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.
-- Althea Gibson -
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
-- Amy Goodman -
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
-- Andrew Gould -
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.
-- Andrew Tobias -
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
-- Andrew Young -
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.
-- Andy Stern -
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?
-- Angela Braly -
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
-- Angela Carter -
Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.
-- Angela Merkel -
In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.
-- Ann Coulter -
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
-- Anna Eshoo -
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.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.
-- Anne McLellan -
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down
-- Annette Funicello -
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
-- Anthony LaPaglia -
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
-- Anthony Mackie -
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
-- Antonio Carlos Jobim -
In America, money takes the place of God.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
-- Ari Fleischer -
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.
-- Arlen Specter -
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
-- Arlen Specter -
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.
-- Art Buchwald -
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)
-- Arthur E. Kennelly -
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money
-- Arthur Godfrey -
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
-- Arthur Laffer -
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
-- Arthur Miller -
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.
-- Azim Premji -
What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.
-- Barack Obama -
The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?
-- Barack Obama -
I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States.
-- Barack Obama -
No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.
-- Barack Obama -
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
-- Barack Obama -
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
-- Barack Obama -
For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.
-- Barack Obama -
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.
-- Barack Obama -
Islam has always been a part of America's story...and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
-- Barack Obama -
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
-- Barbara Chase-Riboud -
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
-- Barbara Holland -
...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.
-- Barbara Jordan -
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
-- Barbara Lee -
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
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.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
-- Barry Commoner -
More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.
-- Barry Eichengreen -
The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is
-- Barry Goldwater -
Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
-- Barry Levinson -
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
-- Barry McCaffrey -
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
-- Bell Hooks -
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.
-- Ben Shahn -
After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
-- Benjamin Bloom
