All Quotes

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
‐‐ James Chanos

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.
‐‐ Jan C. Ting

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.
‐‐ Richard Engel

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.
‐‐ Jay Parini

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
‐‐ Azim Premji

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
‐‐ Cass Sunstein

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.
‐‐ Andrew Niccol

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
‐‐ Kit Bond

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
‐‐ James Dyson

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

The U.S., like any other country, allows tourists into its borders in order to make money off them, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why give out tourist visas if you're not going to let tourists be tourists?
‐‐ Francisco Goldman

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

The U.S. market has the highest priority for Volkswagen.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
‐‐ Charles Bass

The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service members makes Americans rightfully proud.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
‐‐ Amy Goodman

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.
‐‐ Kenny Marchant

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go - 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn't happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me.
‐‐ Kim Dotcom

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
‐‐ Richard Engel

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
‐‐ Brian Boitano

The U.S. only has 20 billion barrels of oil in reserve. It seems as though there is no more oil around. Venezuela has 300 billion barrels of oil in reserves. Iraq has, like, 150 billion barrels of oil. Iran, close to 300 billion barrels of reserve. Oil for 200 years, of course.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.
‐‐ Richard Engel

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
‐‐ Conrad Black

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
‐‐ Tammy Baldwin

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.
‐‐ Evo Morales