All Quotes

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
‐‐ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
‐‐ John Foster Dulles

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.
‐‐ Paul Watson

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.
‐‐ Harry M. Wyatt III

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
‐‐ Scott DesJarlais

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.
‐‐ Janet Napolitano

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
‐‐ John Boehner

The United States and Israel have always had a unique and strong bond that can never be broken.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
‐‐ Barry McCaffrey

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
‐‐ Maria Cantwell

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
‐‐ Alex North

The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
‐‐ Lou Dobbs

The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.
‐‐ Nicolas Maduro

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.
‐‐ Robert C. Solomon

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
‐‐ John Moody

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
‐‐ Lawrence Summers

The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
‐‐ Paul Keating

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
‐‐ Deng Xiaoping

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
‐‐ John Lewis Gaddis

The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.
‐‐ David Roberts

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
‐‐ Pete Sessions

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

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.
‐‐ Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
‐‐ Robert Mundell

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
‐‐ Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.
‐‐ Mike Pence

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

The United States cannot live with terror.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes

The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty