United States Quotes - Page 29

• I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, Dollars, Pay

  "Senators target Facebook co-founder for giving up citizenship, seek to impose taxes", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?

  George Lakoff

  Rain, Fighting, Thinking

  "Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - The Essential Guide for Progressives". Book by George Lakoff, 2004.

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• The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

  Adam Rex

  Country, Too Much, T Shirt

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.7, A&C Black

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• Shannen Rossmiller's work in exposing Islamic terrorists has genuinely made our country safer. She has dedicated her life to combating the terrorist threat against the United States and has amazingly been able to infiltrate and actually stop terrorist operations. Our entire country owes her an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

  Steven Emerson

  Country, Gratitude, Islamic

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• When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

  John O'Hara

  Summer, Tired, Years

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.79, Penguin

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• It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Church, Towers, Kingdoms

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• The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, Like You

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• Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

  Hamid Karzai

  Strong, Years, Feet

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  Hamid Karzai

  Talking, America, Affair

  "Interview with Representative Dana Rohrabacher". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

  Joseph Sobran

  Successful, Revolution, Constitution

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• I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

  Elizabeth Catlett

  Country, Black, Urban

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Age, Spirit, Constitution

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• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  Ernesto Zedillo

  Numbers, Issues, What If

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• The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

  Kimberlee Green

  Educational, Successful, College

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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• 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.

  John Shimkus

  Country, War, Fall

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• By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

  Roger Mahony

  Doors, Temptation, World

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• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

  Brian Mulroney

  California, Everything Happens For A Reason, Political

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• Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

  Leonard Maltin

  Palaces, Los Angeles, Residents

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• The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Government, Important, Quality

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• Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

  Steve Guttenberg

  Trying, Take Me, Stills

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• Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Mean Girls, Real, Tabloids

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sonny Rollins

  Hard Times, America, Play

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

  Tony Snow

  Snow, Earth, Aids

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• 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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, May, Problem

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