United States Quotes - Page 7

• I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  New York, Cutting, Thinking

  "Surprise Trip for Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Brigadier General James Marks; Christian in Iraq". "News from CNN", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2004.

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• I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

  Tom DeLay

  Jobs, Government, Constitution Of The United States

  "Talk Back Live" on CNN, December 19, 1995.

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• This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Giving, President

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• All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

  George W. Bush

  Liberty, Oppression, Hopelessness

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

  George W. Bush

  America, World, Weapons

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

  George W. Bush

  World, Way, Roles

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• Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like - or to the developed world, to people like - in the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, People, Important

  "President Bush Delivers Remarks on Iraq and Answers Questions From the Media". Remarks & Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Christian, Light, White

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• The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

  Jay Inslee

  Oil, Addiction, Needs

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Girl, Reality

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• There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Education, Community, Marketing

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• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  Harold Bloom

  Study, States, United

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, America

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

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• The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

  John Foster Dulles

  America, Doe, Interest

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• The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

  Dean Rusk

  Giving, Cows, Milk

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• Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Hollywood, Literature

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Baseball, Chicago, Cubs

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• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Independence, Principles, Unions

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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• The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Christian, Support, Firsts

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• Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that
  Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens
  to cultivate a spirit of subordination and
  obedience to government; to entertain a
  brotherly affection and love for one another and
  for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Heart, Government

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