United Quotes - Page 15

• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Years, America

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• I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Believe, Government, Middle East

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

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  Dean Acheson

  Cooperation, Instruments, United Nations

  Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

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• When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

  Harold Evans

  Vitality, United States, Firsts

  "Evans' epic recounts the story of a nation" by Jonathan D. Austin, www.cnn.com. November 13, 1998.

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• In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Law, Two

  Commentaries on the Laws of England bk. 1, ch. 2 (1765)

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• Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

  Rick Mercer

  United States, News, Wow

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

  Rick Mercer

  Growing Up, Opposites, Political

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

  Leon Panetta

  Winning, Enemy, United States

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• The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, States, Circumstances

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• The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, States, Knows

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• The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, Force, Protect

  "US will do whatever necessary to protect forces in Pakistan, Panetta says" by Jennifer Griffin, www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2012.

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• One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, Ku Klux Klan, United States

  "‘A Whole New Era’". Interview with Lois Farrow Parshley, foreignpolicy.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

  Max Baucus

  United States, Borders, Beef

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• Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

  Ron Wyden

  President, United States, Watches

  "The Choice Should Be Yours" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Hope, America

  Pre-Inauguration Address at the Lincoln Memorial, delivered 18 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

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• In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, United States, Degrees

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• I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Vegetables

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• I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Ocean, Support, Tasks

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Gratitude, Short Life, Grief

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Soul, Ordinary, Body

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• Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Frustration, Air, United States

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• I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

  Bob Dole

  Fall, Home, White

  "Dole Quits Senate To Campaign Full Time". www.cnn.com. May 15, 1996.

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• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Jerusalem, Divided

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• Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Country, Strong, Reality

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