United States Of America Quotes - Page 14

• I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, America, United States

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Race, America, Racism

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.

  Trevor Noah

  Taken, America, Democracy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Government, American West

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

  Peter King

  Cutting, America, United States

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• I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, People, Brain

  "The Return of the Decade of the Brain" by Luke Dittrich, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

  John Adams

  Character, Law, America

  "Treaty of Tripoli". Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary signed by President John Adams (Article 11), www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 1797.

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• We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else.

  Tim Ryan

  Jobs, Technology, Creating

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• We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

  Tim Ryan

  Jobs, Children, America

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• The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

  John Adams

  Simple, Government, America

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• When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity. And I have to say just from a personal level, it really felt good. We all felt the same way.

  Goldie Hawn

  America, Unity, United States

  "Goldie Hawn Talks ‘MindUP’ and Her Mission to Bring Children Happiness". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

  Maria Shriver

  California, America, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, United States, World

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Thinking, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

  Joe Biden

  America, Years, Guy

  "ABC's David Wright Slams Palin for Living in a 'Glass House'". Interview with Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. October 22, 2008.

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• I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

  Doug Liman

  Men, Thinking, Moon

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• While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

  Che Guevara

  America, United States, Imperialism

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.173, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• No black or white America-just United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  White, America, Black

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• The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.

  Martin O'Malley

  America, Principles, United States

  Martin O'Malley during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  George Washington

  America, Giving, Liberty

  George Washington, Edward Frank Humphrey (1932). “George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters”

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• I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

  Rex Stout

  Children, Book, Sleep

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• The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.

  Paul Washer

  America, United States, Problem

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• Sarah Palin knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.

  John McCain

  America, Energy, United States

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