The United States Quotes

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world

One of the richest countries in the world - the United States of America - is facing a real ethical dilemma in terms of providing equitable access to health care.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.