United States Quotes - Page 21

• The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

  Ken Salazar

  Opportunity, Years, Done

  "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Says U.S. Needs Federal Fracking Rules", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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• 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.

  Nguyen Van Thieu

  Fighting, Men, Promise

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• I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

  George Galloway

  Email, Addresses, Easy

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• We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

  George Galloway

  Fall, Men, Pulse

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

  Margaret Drabble

  Iraq, Done, World

  "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.

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• Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

  People, Office, Criminals

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• More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

  Elton Gallegly

  Horse, Pregnancy, Increase

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• Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Eye, Law

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• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  Ed Royce

  Running, Cutting, Als

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• The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

  Ed Royce

  Reality, Iraq, Long

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• If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

  Paul Krugman

  Simple, Errors, Years

  Paul Krugman (2010). “The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

  Bill Hicks

  Gun, Connections, England

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• Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Judging, Decision

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• Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Order, Numbers

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• The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

  John Ashcroft

  Usa, Liberty, Information

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• The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Investing

  Gore Vidal (2013). “Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005”, p.3, The Nation Co. LP

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• In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• 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.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mean, Talking, People

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

  Annette Funicello

  Men, Rate, Affected

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• In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

  Jonas Mekas

  Europe, Care, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Becoming One, Air, Earth

  "Mumia Abu-Jamal: "The United States Is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth"". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 01, 2013.

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• The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

  Robert Kennedy

  Military, Long, Priorities

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, War

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• In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.

  Ted Strickland

  Heart, Men, America

  The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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