The United States Quotes

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.