United States Quotes - Page 20

• I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Book, America, Spain

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• I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

  Manuel Puig

  Stay Strong, New York, Teaching

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• Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

  Mary Landrieu

  Wall, War, Transition

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• On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, August, Two

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• The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

  Peter Schiff

  Real, People, Trying

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• I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

  Diego Maradona

  Hate, I Hate, States

  Diego Armando Maradona (2013). “Maradona: The Autobiography of Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star”, p.347, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

  Spencer Bachus

  Alabama, Belief, Beneficial

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• The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

  Maria Cantwell

  Law, Needs, Trials

  "The Anderson Cooper 360° Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

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• There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

  Mark Steyn

  Years, Europe, Twenties

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• I’m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I’m right there with our founding fathers. I’m a patriot and a Christian, and I’m moving forth with what they started. But now it’s gotten to where I’m some kind of nut or Bible beater.
  I say, so be it. I’ll still go across the country spreading God’s Word, like I’ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. It’s what makes me happy, happy, happy.

  Phil Robertson

  Christian, Country, Father

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

  Jim Gerlach

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Hussein

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• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

  Erik Larson

  Levels, Anti Semitism, Department

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• No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

  Luis Valdez

  Country, Liberty, Facts

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• France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

  Francois Hollande

  Views, May, Months

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• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Friends, War, Moving

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• Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

  Steve Buyer

  Military, America, Worry

  Congressional Record 109th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 152, No. 66, May 24, 2006.

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

  Nguyen Van Thieu

  Fighting, Men, Promise

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• I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

  George Galloway

  Email, Addresses, Easy

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• Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Eye, Law

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• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  Ed Royce

  Running, Cutting, Als

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• If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

  Paul Krugman

  Simple, Errors, Years

  Paul Krugman (2010). “The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Order, Numbers

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• The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

  John Ashcroft

  Usa, Liberty, Information

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