United States Quotes - Page 33

• The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Long, Drones

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• President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

  Jay Leno

  Approval Rating, President, Accusing

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

  Drew Curtis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Loss, Islands, Yield

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• The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

  James Risen

  Army, Dating, Mind

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

  Marty Meehan

  Iraq, Custody, Abu Ghraib

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• Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

  Marty Meehan

  Leadership, Moral High Ground, President

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• Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

  Stedman Graham

  Talking, President, Homeless

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Dream, Believe, Membership

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• A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

  Jalal Talabani

  Important, Roles, Burden

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• However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

  Steven Chu

  Parent, Married, Possibility

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• What we do every day - whether you live in
  Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
  can have a very negative impact on
  an entire way of life for an entire people
  far away from that source

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Russia, People

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• During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Airports, Library, Saws

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• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Occupation, Uniforms, Fit

  "Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 13, 1869.

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• I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish. If these things do not take place, I will hereby consent to have my hand separated from my body.

  Martin Harris

  Christian, Religious, Race

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• Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Blessed, Faith In God, Has Beens

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• The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Population

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

  Michelle Alexander

  Country, Black, Population

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Color, People

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

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• White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

  Jane Elliott

  Teacher, Freedom, Ignorance

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• The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, Half, Fuel

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