United States Quotes
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.
Censorship is alive and well in America.
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.
It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works.
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.
Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked as philosophy.
Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.
When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.
Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.
We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.
We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.
It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.
Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?
The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.
In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Washington was no politician as we understand the word, " replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.
