United States Government Quotes - Page 3

• There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, People, United States

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• Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Government, Apples

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• Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Dark, Government, Bombs

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• In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.

  John O. Brennan

  Order, Law, Government

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

  Joe Baca

  Native American, Government, Land

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• It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.

  Wayne Allard

  Believe, Years, Government

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• The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

  Cofer Black

  Government, United States, Doe

  "Iranian group tests U.S. terrorism policy" by Michael R. Gordon and Douglas Jehl, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2003.

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.

  Michael Che

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government, Decision, United States

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• What I believe is that the United States is going to be playing on a level playing field in dealing with Israel and the Palestinian people. I am 100 percent pro Israel in the sense of Israel's right to exist, I lived in Israel, I have family in Israel, Israel has the right to live not only in peace and security, but to know that their very existence will be protected by the United States government.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Government, Israel

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

  David Swanson

  Country, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government that believes Islam is as anti-terror as you and I are? Well, it means that Islamic doctrine can never be cited as the cause of terrorism, as a matter of policy. And it never is. It never is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have met with women who toward the end of their pregnancy get the worst news one could get, that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy. I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing so with the life and the health of the mother taken into account.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Pregnancy, Taken

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, United States, Dollars

  "Senators target Facebook co-founder for giving up citizenship, seek to impose taxes", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Al Sharpton

  Education, Country, Government

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• The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Government, Political, United States

  PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1964). “A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO”

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• The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Government, United States, Connections

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• The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.

  Avro Manhattan

  Real, Government, Oil

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• During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Israeli Lobby with the full complicity of the national media. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.

  Thomas Naylor

  Powerful, Wall, America

  "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.

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• I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

  Edward Kennedy

  Government, Years, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.

  James Comey

  Government, Iraq, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Opportunity, Government

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• The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Government, Years

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• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  Jim Cooper

  Ties, Government, Safe

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