United States Quotes - Page 30

• I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Long, Middle East, Transformation

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• 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.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• 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.

  Paul Robeson

  Struggle, People, Feelings

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• I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

  Dave McGinnis

  Military, Believe, Responsibility

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• 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.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, War, Japan

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• Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

  Duff Green

  Song, Men, Has Beens

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• The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

  Mark Foley

  War, Today, Complacency

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• These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

  Paul Bremer

  Hate, People, Who We Are

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• Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Oil, Wildlife

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• The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, War, Discovery

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• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

  Simon Bolivar

  Names, America, Liberty

  Simon Bolivar's statement (1829) as quoted in John Gerassi "The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans", 1963.

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• The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Pregnancy, Men, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

  Peter Camejo

  Pregnancy, Government, Iraq

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

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

  Josiah Strong

  Pregnancy, Long, Tendencies

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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• The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

  Frank Gaffney

  Pregnancy, World, Defeat

  "Red storm ahead" by Lou Dobbs, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2005.

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• I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

  George J. Mitchell

  Pregnancy, Years, Judging

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• 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.

  Ben Shahn

  Pregnancy, Desire, Hoboken

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• I, for one, begin with intent. ... There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

  Tommy Franks

  Pregnancy, America, Alliances

  "Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack". www.newsmax.com. November 20, 2003.

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• It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

  Carroll Quigley

  Pregnancy, Years, Belief

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.

  Gary Null

  Cancer, Years, Giving

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• I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Thinking, America, Sick

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• Every day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is in our communities, both here in America and around the world. I believe that the establishement of a United States Department of Peace can greatly help alleviate the many problems that we hear about on a daily basis. Our children deserve so much better. It is our job right here and now to build a better world. By establishing a US Department of Peace we are doing just that. Please get involved ... It's up to us to be the change that we wish for and the time is now to co-create it.

  Paula Abdul

  Time, Jobs, Children

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Agreement, Way, Proposal

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.172, Best Books on

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• Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

  Mary Livermore

  Courage, Men, Years

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