It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. ~By Wavy Gravy ~
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 ~
A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ~By Kit Bond ~
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. ~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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 ~
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 ~
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
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 ~
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 ~
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ~By Chester A. Arthur ~
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ~By Dominique de Villepin ~
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. ~By Norman Cousins ~
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. ~By Ted Olson ~
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. ~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon. ~By Wallis Simpson ~
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle. ~By Mark Kelly ~
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. ~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. ~By Barack Obama ~
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 ~
It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty. ~By Ike Skelton ~
Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks. ~By Michael K. Simpson ~
The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization. ~By Ginny B. Waite ~
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ~By Garet Garrett ~
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. ~By Stephen Douglas ~
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. ~By Zebulon Pike ~
We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible. ~By Peter Camejo ~
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence. ~By Janet Napolitano ~
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. ~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended. ~By Al Green ~
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ~By James Tobin ~
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ~By Richard Parks Bland ~
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ~By Francine Busby ~
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ~By Anthony Weiner ~
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations. ~By Gary Miller ~
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. ~By Peter Singer ~
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 ~
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? ~By Victoria Woodhull ~
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. ~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ~By John Boyd Orr ~
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 do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front. ~By Henry L. Stimson ~
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ~By Walt Whitman ~
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. ~By Robert McChesney ~
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. ~By Carrie Chapman Catt ~
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ~By Julian Assange ~
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ~By Ezra Stiles ~
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ~By Dick Thornburgh ~
One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward. ~By Mike Rounds ~
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ~By Gore Vidal ~
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~By Arthur Godfrey ~
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 ~
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. ~By Cliff Stearns ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ~By Tony Randall ~
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. ~By Pauline Hanson ~
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking. ~By Kid Rock ~
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. ~By Louis de Bernieres ~
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ~By John Acton ~
As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country. ~By Wesley Clark ~
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. ~By John Hume ~
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ~By Gore Vidal ~
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. ~By Paul Robeson ~
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. ~By Brad Sherman ~
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. ~By Harold Pinter ~
It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up. ~By Jimmy Kimmel ~
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. ~By Mike Johanns ~
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. ~By Pat Robertson ~
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself. ~By George Carey ~
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ~By Harold Russell ~
So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. ~By Adam Michnik ~
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ~By John Breaux ~
Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals. ~By Juliette G. Low ~
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period. ~By Anna Eshoo ~
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. ~By Julius Streicher ~
The United States transportation system is the envy of the world. ~By Jerry Costello ~
Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. ~By Patty Hearst ~
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. ~By Ryan Stiles ~
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. ~By L. Neil Smith ~
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. ~By Robert McChesney ~
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. ~By Mathieu Kerekou ~
And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school. ~By James T. Walsh ~
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. ~By Felix Klein ~
When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. ~By Townsend Harris ~
I like politics. I like traveling in the United States. ~By Laura Bush ~
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United. ~By Robbie Fowler ~
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty. ~By Richard Perle ~
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 ~
I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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 ~
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 ~
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come. ~By Dennis Cardoza ~
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. ~By Vernon A. Walters ~
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. ~By Hideki Tojo ~
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. ~By Al Roker ~
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. ~By Robert Mueller ~
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