The United States Quotes

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

One of the things I learned was that Putin has no respect for the United States leadership. Not for the United States, but the leadership.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.