By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
~By David Gill ~
Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
~By Harry Reid ~
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
~By Tim Holden ~
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
~By John Astin ~
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
~By Charles Grassley ~
Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.
~By Mark Kirk ~
A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
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.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
~By George Pataki ~
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
~By Claude Pepper ~
No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
~By Peter Agre ~
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
~By Robert Byrd ~
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.
~By Allen Boyd ~
Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.
~By Michael Burgess ~
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
~By Michael Burgess ~
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.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
~By Dan Quayle ~
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
~By Peter Camejo ~
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
~By David Dean Rusk ~
Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.
~By Johnny Isakson ~
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
~By Tony Snow ~
Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
~By Pauline Frederick ~
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
~By Will Rogers ~
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
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.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
~By Howard Dean ~
I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
~By John Poindexter ~
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
~By Bobby Scott ~
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
~By Joshua A. Norton ~
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.
~By Julius Streicher ~
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~By James K. Polk ~
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
~By Janet Reno ~
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.
~By Barry Levinson ~
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.
~By Nick Clooney ~
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
~By Barbara Lee ~
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
We would be there for Canada, part of our family. That is why so many in the United States are disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.
~By Martin Denny ~
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
~By Marty Meehan ~
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.
~By George Galloway ~
There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
~By Peter Camejo ~
A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
~By George Soros ~
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
~By Harry Belafonte ~
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.
~By John Boehner ~
With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
~By George W. Bush ~
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
~By George W. Bush ~
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
~By Arthur Hays Sulzberger ~
In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~By Colin Powell ~
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
~By Donald Trump ~
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.
~By Mike Pence ~
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
~By Robin Hayes ~
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.
~By Joseph Jackson ~
Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
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