United States Quotes - Page 25

• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Virginia Foxx

  Forgiveness, Government, Ideas

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• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

  Jim Garrison

  Thinking, Agency, Long

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• I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

  Bob Matsui

  Thinking, Important, Slavery

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• When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

  Unknown

  America, Would Be, Flags

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• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

  T Bone Burnett

  Pregnancy, Civilization, Competition

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• I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

  Bob Lutz

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

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• As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

  Ben Bova

  Israel, Oil, Long

  Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

  Maurice Ashley

  Games, Interesting, People

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• American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Government, West Germany

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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• The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

  David A. Siegel

  Running, Needs, Bigs

  "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Thinking, Russia, Way

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• If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president

  Paul Castellano

  Smart, President, Needs

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• I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  Vida Blue

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

  Cofer Black

  Government, Doe, Terrorist

  "Iranian group tests U.S. terrorism policy" by Michael R. Gordon and Douglas Jehl, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2003.

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• Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

  Cofer Black

  War, Osama Bin Laden, Should

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• Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

  Howard Aiken

  Would Be, Needs, Digital

  " "Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, Ibm Dedicate Mark I Computer" by Randy Alfred, www.wired.com. August 7, 2008.

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• And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

  Marek Belka

  Running, Country, Years

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• I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

  Richard Ernst

  Jobs, Usa, Forever

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Everyday, Missionary, Asia

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  David Stockman

  War, Japan, Advice

  "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" by David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2013.

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• The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Medicine, Looks, Occupation

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