The United States Quotes

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.

The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House.

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

We want to remember that America is at its best when it’s struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

In case nobody has told you, " she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.

The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

Rights’ are ‘privileges, ’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.