All Quotes

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
‐‐ Olympia Snowe

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
‐‐ Susan Rice

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
‐‐ Mona Sutphen

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
‐‐ Tony Snow

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
‐‐ Mark Foley

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
‐‐ Ted Olson

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
‐‐ Bob Ehrlich

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee... The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.
‐‐ Mohammad Javad Zarif

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
‐‐ Ed Royce

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
‐‐ Frank Auerbach

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
‐‐ George Saunders

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
‐‐ Albert Pike

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
‐‐ Arthur Herzog

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
‐‐ Giambattista Vico

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

The Universal view melts things into a blur.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail