300 Quotes on United

• 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!

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

  Author: Adolfo Zinser

• In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• 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.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• 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.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

  Author: Martin Yan

• 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.

  Author: Martin Yan

• 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.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• 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.

  Author: James Wilson

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• 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.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Author: Christine Whitman

• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Author: Allen West

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Author: Diane Watson

• 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.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

  Author: George Washington

• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

  Author: Burt Ward

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  Author: Vernon Walters

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

  Author: James Walsh

• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  Author: James Walsh

• 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.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• 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.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• 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.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• 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.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Author: Jon Voight

• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  Author: David Vitter

• 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.

  Author: Dominique Villepin

• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• 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.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• 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.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  Author: John Updike

• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  Author: Ted Turner

• 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.

  Author: Jonathan Turley

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  Author: Mao Tung

• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Author: Donald Trump

• He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

  Author: Margaret Truman

• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  Author: Harry Truman

• If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

  Author: Leopold Trepper

• Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• 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.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• 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.

  Author: James Tobin

• I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• 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.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  Author: Cal Thomas

• The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

  Author: Nguyen Thieu

• But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

  Author: Nguyen Thieu

• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

  Author: Shirley Temple

• 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.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• 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.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  Author: Oliver Tambo

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  Author: Ice T

• 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.

  Author: John Sweeney

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  Author: Ichiro Suzuki

• 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.

  Author: John Sununu

• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

  Author: John Sununu

• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  Author: William Sumner

• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Author: Larry Summers

• The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

  Author: Simeon Strunsky

• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• 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.

  Author: Anna Strong

• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Author: Anna Strong

• 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.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• 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.

  Author: Ryan Stiles

• 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.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• 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.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

  Author: John Spratt

• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  Author: John Spratt

• English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Author: Terry Southern

• 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.

  Author: George Soros

• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  Author: George Soros

• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Author: Vic Snyder

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

  Author: Tony Snow

• 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.

  Author: Lorenzo Snow

• They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

  Author: Lorenzo Snow

• Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

  Author: John Snow

• If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

  Author: Will Smith

• In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.

  Author: Martha Smith

• 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.

  Author: Martha Smith

• 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.

  Author: L. Smith

• They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

  Author: Eddie Slovik

• We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• 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.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

  Author: John Sirica

• 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.

  Author: Peter Singer

• The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Author: Wallis Simpson

• 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.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

  Author: Nina Simone

• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• 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.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  Author: John Shimkus

• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  Author: John Shimkus

• 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!

  Author: Mark Shields

• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Author: Mark Shields

• Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• 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.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• 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.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Author: Wallace Shawn

• If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  Author: Yitzhak Shamir

• 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.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  Author: John Shadegg

• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

  Author: John Shadegg

• 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.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  Author: William Seward

• He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

  Author: Doc Severinsen

• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• 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.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

  Author: Tom Seaver

• The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• 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.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• 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.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• 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.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

  Author: Howard Schultz

• Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• 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.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

  Author: Paul Sarbanes

• We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

  Author: Pete Sampras

• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Author: Kim Sam

• The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  Author: Anwar Sadat

• The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• 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.

  Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• 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.

  Author: Harold Russell

• 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.

  Author: Dean Rusk

• The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

  Author: David Rusk

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  Author: J. Rushton

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• 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.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

  Author: R. Rowland

• 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.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

  Author: Wayne Rooney

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  Author: Wayne Rooney

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

  Author: Cristiano Ronaldo

• Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

  Author: Cristiano Ronaldo

• You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• 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.

  Author: Al Roker

• 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.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

  Author: Moo-hyum Roh

• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

  Author: Will Rogers

• One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

  Author: Will Rogers

• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

  Author: Will Rogers

• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

  Author: Will Rogers

• It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

  Author: James Rogers

• One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

  Author: Chris Rock

• I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• 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.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• 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.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• 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.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• 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.

  Author: Janet Reno

• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• 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.

  Author: Harry Reid

• The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

  Author: Harry Reid

• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

  Author: Michael Reagan

• The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

  Author: John Reagan

• These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

  Author: Herbert Read

• To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• 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.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

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