Usa Quotes - Page 23

• A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

  Christopher Bond

  Numbers, United States, Program

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• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Thinking, United States, World

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• The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

  Emanuel Celler

  Growth, United States, Population

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

  Corrine Brown

  Immigration, United States, Problem

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• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Diane Watson

  United States, World, Postal Service

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• God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

  Ely Culbertson

  Winning, United States, World

  Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston

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• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  Barbara Mikulski

  United States, Ambassadors, Firsts

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• When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, United States, Lawyer

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• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  John Shimkus

  Oil, United States, Refinery

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• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Memories, United States, Today

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• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  Ed Rendell

  Thinking, Ethical Standards, Needs

  "Gov. Rendell and Rep. Issa on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2010.

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• [Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

  Jerry Springer

  Iraq, Generations, Hated

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• I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Businessman, Policemen

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• Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, War, Way

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

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• Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Wall, Father, People

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• In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Strong, Teenager

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

  George Lee Butler

  Country, War, Organization

  "Gen. George Lee Butler". Interview with Michael McGuire, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 17, 1999.

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• I don't think there is much American music.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, American Music

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• Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

  Le Corbusier

  Heart, Two, America

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• Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.

  James Harden

  Basketball, Summer, Country

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• USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

  James Roday

  Jobs, Moving, Doe

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Home, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.

  Michael Schur

  Country, Cities, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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