United States Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting ... It's not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I don't share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but - God forbid - you see someone's nipples.

  Anna Paquin

  Attitude, Thinking, Interesting

  "'True Blood' Starlet Anna Paquin Is 'To Die For' In Nylon Magazine: Cover Story" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Presidential, African American

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

  Curtis Stone

  Opportunity, Media, People

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• Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Past, Pneumonia, Brazil

  Interview with Richard Lapper and Jonathan Wheatley, www.ft.com. July 11, 2006.

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• I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

  Jon Lovitz

  President, Mice, States

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• If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

  Ralph Nader

  War, Cycling, Oil

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• Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Hard Work, College

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• If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, People

  "IMPEACHMENT; The Debate on Articles of Impeachment Against President Clinton". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 1998.

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• We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  States, United

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• The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Education, Red Flags, People

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• If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Military, Blow

  "The Radio Factor", November 8, 2005.

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• As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.

  Rick Santorum

  Eye, Somewhere Else, Iraq

  "Santorum defends Iraq war" by Alison Hawkes of Bucks County Courier Times, October 17, 2006.

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• George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

  Rick Santorum

  Catholic, President, Firsts

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• This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

  "Does Santorum Believe Obama Is Part of a Satanic Plot?" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

  Edward James Olmos

  People, Trying, Right Now

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• You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

  Edward James Olmos

  Two, Years, Diversity

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• For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

  Gale Harold

  Strong, Drama, Hero

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• It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path that these past five years have taken me, so I guess I’ll just give a safe answer and say that I hope to be elected as the president of the United States in 2016.

  Skylar Astin

  Taken, Past, Years

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• Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

  Tony Randall

  Country, Government, Should Have

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• There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.

  Ringo Starr

  Prayer, Thinking, People

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• I think the United States is way behind the times.

  Christopher Atkins

  Thinking, Way, Behinds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Fighting, America

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• In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

  Ann Coulter

  Law, World, Britain

  "The Hun is at the gate". townhall.com. November 29, 2001.

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• Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Believe, America

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