The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
~By Virgil Goode ~
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
~By Colin Powell ~
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
~By Robert McChesney ~
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.
~By James Monroe ~
In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
~By Jim Walsh ~
While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.
~By Jonathan Turley ~
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
~By Susan George ~
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 ~
Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
~By John Bruton ~
The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
~By Peter King ~
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 ~
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
~By Robert McNamara ~
Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.
~By Sarah Polley ~
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
~By Zhu Rongji ~
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 ~
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.
~By Al Lewis ~
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
~By Peter MacKay ~
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
~By Dan Quayle ~
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
~By Martin Yan ~
One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.
~By Don Sherwood ~
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 ~
The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
~By Gary Miller ~
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
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 ~
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty.
~By Jose de Diego ~
It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
~By Marty Meehan ~
What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.
~By Michael Hayden ~
When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.
~By Lee J. Cobb ~
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
United we stand, divided we fall.
~By Aesop ~
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
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 ~
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
~By Richard Perle ~
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 ~
Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
~By Bill Owens ~
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 ~
United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
~By Ron Chernow ~
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
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 ~
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
~By Duff Green ~
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
~By Dean Rusk ~
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
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.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
~By Alan Cranston ~
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
~By Barack Obama ~
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
~By Al Sharpton ~
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.
~By Isoroku Yamamoto ~
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
~By Jane Austen ~
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.
~By Matthew Modine ~
I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
~By Glenn Beck ~
The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
~By Crispin Glover ~
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 ~
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
~By Darrell Issa ~
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.
~By Silvio Berlusconi ~
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
~By Alice Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
~By John Sununu ~
Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.
~By Allen Boyd ~
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