People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. ~By Louis de Bernieres ~
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States. ~By John Breaux ~
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. ~By Lajos Kossuth ~
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. ~By Vito Fossella ~
The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States. ~By Roger Mahony ~
The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year. ~By Leopold Trepper ~
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God. ~By Michael Servetus ~
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that. ~By Ken Mehlman ~
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. ~By Adam Schiff ~
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. ~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. ~By Pope Paul VI ~
As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness. ~By Townsend Harris ~
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ~By Edwidge Danticat ~
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt. ~By Stafford Cripps ~
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. ~By Ezra Stiles ~
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. ~By Jim Costa ~
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. ~By Tony Campolo ~
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year. ~By Marek Belka ~
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. ~By William H. Seward ~
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. ~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people. ~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime. ~By Sam Sheppard ~
I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ~By Tommy Franks ~
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history! ~By Mark Shields ~
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ~By George W. Bush ~
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. ~By Frank Gaffney ~
I'm 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. ~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. ~By Bill Hicks ~
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. ~By C. L. R. James ~
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market. ~By Jim Bunning ~
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities. ~By Mary Cheney ~
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ~By Harri Holkeri ~
Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. ~By Randy Forbes ~
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 ~
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. ~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in. ~By Bob Matsui ~
Every year, more than 300 million x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and other medical imaging exams are performed in the United States, and seven out of 10 people undergo some type of radiologic procedure. ~By Charles W. Pickering ~
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same. ~By Stephen Ambrose ~
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. ~By Martha Smith ~
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. ~By John T. Flynn ~
I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete. ~By John Culberson ~
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 ~
Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States. ~By Isaac Hanson ~
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 ~
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. ~By Iris Chang ~
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating. ~By Dizzy Dean ~
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. ~By Cindy Sheehan ~
Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land? ~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night. ~By Pauline Frederick ~
I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States. ~By Evo Morales ~
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. ~By Robert Fisk ~
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. ~By Ulrich Beck ~
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law. ~By John Shadegg ~
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products. ~By Richard Neal ~
You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice. ~By Rod Parsley ~
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest. ~By Charles Hodge ~
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ~By Horst Koehler ~
The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system. ~By Diane Watson ~
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go. ~By Rainn Wilson ~
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future. ~By Brad Henry ~
My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. ~By Fidel Castro ~
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians. ~By Arthur Hays Sulzberger ~
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? ~By Richard M. Nixon ~
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. ~By Marco Rubio ~
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 ~
It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity. ~By Christopher Atkins ~
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. ~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
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 ~
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. ~By Howard Zinn ~
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States! ~By Dan Quayle ~
Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined. ~By Tom Lantos ~
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ~By John Perkins ~
It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada. ~By Dannii Minogue ~
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ~By Vivien Leigh ~
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 ~
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists. ~By Paul Robeson ~
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ~By Allyson Schwartz ~
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. ~By Ahmed Yassin ~
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. ~By Linda Chavez ~
The United Nations has no business in our elections. ~By David Vitter ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber. ~By Orrin Hatch ~
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency. ~By Jerry Falwell ~
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. ~By Ben Shahn ~
In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. ~By John Mica ~
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ~By Francine Busby ~
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. ~By Margaret Truman ~
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. ~By Jesse Helms ~
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ~By Pat Paulsen ~
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ~By John Moody ~
I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ~By David Bruce ~
United we stand, divided we fall. ~By Aesop ~
Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think. ~By George Martin ~
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. ~By Mark Kennedy ~
Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States. ~By Corrine Brown ~
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. ~By Mark Foley ~
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
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