United States Quotes - Page 23

• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  Corn, Crops, Range

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Add, Databases

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Agency, Hands

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

  H. L. Mencken

  Average, Democracy, Degrees

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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• But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Self, Important

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• Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Believe, Color, Government

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  Charles Lemert

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

  Nita Lowey

  Children, Gun, America

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• Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

  Michael Bloomberg

  President, States, United

  "Rather Says Bloomberg Ruled Out White House Bid". Interview with Dan Rather, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Italian, Player

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• Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

  Don Baylor

  Texas, People, Everyday

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• It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.

  Pascal Lamy

  One Direction, Europe, Trying

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• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hate, Thinking, Progress

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• It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

  Robert Byrd

  America, People, Liberty

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• The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

  Billy Higgins

  Music, Japan, People

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• No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Depression, Years, Political

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• The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

  Paul Krugman

  Feelings, Investing, World

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• I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

  John F. Akers

  Intelligence, Satisfaction, Individual

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• I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Talking, People, Perspective

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• The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.

  Ari Fleischer

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, President

  "White House: Iraq has mass-destruction weapons". www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

  Stephen Hadley

  Allies, Pakistan, States

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• The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

  Allen Weinstein

  Party, People, Political

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• Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

  Yukiya Amano

  Country, Iran, Europe

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