United States Quotes - Page 34

• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Class, Republican, Communist

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

  Paul Foster Case

  Years, Pyramids, Numbers

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• It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

  Eileen Claussen

  Kyoto Protocol, Target, Becoming

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• I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

  Norman Granz

  Thinking, States, United

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• The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

  Philip Alston

  Rights, Law, Drones

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• Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.

  Lierre Keith

  Men, Two, Three

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Patriotic, Roots

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision and I agree with the dissent. What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is I will act to repeal ObamaCare.

  Mitt Romney

  Obamacare, Decision, President

  Romney remarks on high court ruling upholding Obama health care law, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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• We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Blue, America, Forever

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.

  Evo Morales

  Government, Needs, Movement

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Memorial, Expansion, Purpose

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• San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world

  Duke Ellington

  Years, San Francisco, Community

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, Innocence

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• By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Government, Workers, States

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• As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Law, Reign, Conservative

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.114, Random House

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• In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

  Stockwell Day

  Issues, People, Conservative

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• Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

  Ramsey Clark

  Mean, Government, Law

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• The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

  George B. Hartzog, Jr.

  Land, Ideas, America

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• I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

  Pablo Escobar

  Cells, Jail, Colombia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

  Louis de Bernieres

  People, Meals, Photograph

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• When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

  Steve Erickson

  War, Ideas, America

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