United States Quotes - Page 4

• Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Food Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

  Winston Churchill

  Fire, Politics, Limits

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• The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, President, Problem

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Passion, Black, One Day

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• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Winning

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mother, Country, War

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• We need a leader who can lower taxes, protect small businesses, and increase job creation nationwide. I have no doubt that John McCain appreciates the important role Hispanics play not only in the economy, but in our nation's culture as well -- he has a track record with Hispanics for more than 20 years as a senator from Arizona. The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

  Katie Barberi

  Strong, Jobs, Men

  "McCain Counters Powell Endorsement With Soap Opera Actress" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

  Katie Barberi

  Strong, Men, People

  "McCain Counters Powell Endorsement With Soap Opera Actress" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jail

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• I've been at the front a couple of times and won back in 2002, but I haven't been in that position too many times over here in the United States, so we'll see how it goes.

  Luke Donald

  Couple, Position, Fronts

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• If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

  Siraj Wahhaj

  Clever, Government, Ifs

  "Jihad At the DNC" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. August 21, 2012.

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• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  Andrew Manis

  Strong, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Israel, Utterance, Addresses

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• I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Martin Sheen

  Office, House, President

  "Commentary A Celebrity, but First a Citizen". articles.latimes.com. March 17, 2003.

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• I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

  Darren Criss

  Running, President, Would Be

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• It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

  John Ratzenberger

  Real, People, Tubes

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• Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

  James Woods

  Teenage, Warrior, Boys

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

  James Woods

  Thinking, President, Moron

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• What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

  Russell Means

  Europe, Movement, American Indian

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• To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

  Jane Fonda

  Jobs, People, Discipline

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• To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

  Van Jones

  Powerful, Color, White

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• The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

  Nick Nolte

  Sweet, Wind, Mexican

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• Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, Different, World

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.

  Javier Bardem

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

  Maria Menounos

  Pregnancy, People, President

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

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