United States Quotes - Page 40

• We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

  Julian McMahon

  Powerful, America, Speak

  5 Copy quote

• When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

  Milos Forman

  New York, America, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

  Anna Eshoo

  Successful, America, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

  Horst Kohler

  America, Liberty, Never Forget

  7 Copy quote

• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Jim Ryun

  Army, Jewels, America

  77 Copy quote

• The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

  Winston Churchill

  Land, America, Speech

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

  John F. Kennedy

  Mass Destruction, America, Long

  4 Copy quote

• A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, America

  5 Copy quote

• The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  America, Diversity, Tolerance

  5 Copy quote

• I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, Care, Facts

  7 Copy quote

• This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

  George H. W. Bush

  August, Kuwait, Oil

  4 Copy quote

• But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, Multitudes, Grandeur

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.157

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Media, America

  17 Copy quote

• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, Venture

  7 Copy quote

• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Grateful, President

  7 Copy quote

• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Al Sharpton

  Education, Country, Government

  8 Copy quote

• They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

  Matthew Modine

  Education, Media, People

  7 Copy quote

• I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Success, President, Titles

  49 Copy quote

• If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thinking, Names, Imperialism

  20 Copy quote

• The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Constitution, Results

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Europe, Political, Today

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Long, People

  4 Copy quote

• An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

  Walter Lippmann

  Offering, Stronger, Links

  15 Copy quote

• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Actors, Want

  71 Copy quote

• Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

  Glenn Beck

  Zero, Thinking, Desire

  4 Copy quote