United States Quotes - Page 16

• I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?

  Rick Perry

  Hate, Moving, Mean

  "This Week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. July 6, 2014.

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• One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

  Tim Pawlenty

  People, President, Needs

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• I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.

  Mo Brooks

  Children, Believe, Home

  "Removing Illegal Immigrants: The Key to Job Creation?". "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. October 3, 2011.

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• All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

  Peter Camejo

  Europe, Law, America

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Escaping, Important, Firsts

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Israel, Play, Differences

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• One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Paris, White

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• Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  President, Next, Remember

  "Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study". Book by Sigmund Freud and William Christian Bullitt, Jr., 1966.

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• Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

  Frank Norris

  New York, Nashville, Cities

  Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society

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• If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

  Jerry Falwell

  President, Great Wall, Presidency

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• God considers this land to be His. You read the Bible and He says 'this is my land' and for any Prime Minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'no, this is mine'... He was dividing God's land and I would say woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU, the United Nations, or the United States of America. God says 'this land belongs to me. You'd better leave it alone.'

  Pat Robertson

  Israel, Land, Woe Unto

  "Robertson 'said Sharon being punished by God'", www.rawstory.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts...They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

  Pat Robertson

  Party, Thinking, Law

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• It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

  Alice Hamilton

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Germany

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd

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• I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, People, Nuclear

  "Kudlow & Cramer", September 2, 2003.

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• The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.

  Ajaypal Singh Banga

  People, World, Adults

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• Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

  Bayard Rustin

  Character, Gay, Rights

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• I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

  James K. Polk

  President, Newspapers, Controversy

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Years

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Mistake

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, Independence

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

  Nathan Deal

  Birth, Illegal, Accounts

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• Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Iraq, Doe, Threat

  "Congressional reaction varies on Iraqi strike", www.cnn.com. March 20, 2003.

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• I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Real, School

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