United States Quotes - Page 28

• I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, People, Nuclear

  "Kudlow & Cramer", September 2, 2003.

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• The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.

  Ajaypal Singh Banga

  People, World, Adults

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• I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

  James K. Polk

  President, Newspapers, Controversy

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

  Nathan Deal

  Birth, Illegal, Accounts

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• I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Real, School

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• Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority

  John Culberson

  Taken, Law, Enforcement

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• The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

  Seth Low

  Pregnancy, Taken, Names

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• The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Carbon Emissions, Energy, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.

  Joe Biden

  America, President, Vices

  "Six times Joe Biden aimed for the truth and caused a headache" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. October 6, 2014.

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• No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Assessment, America

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• I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.

  Joseph Crowley

  Military, Believe, Law

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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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• And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

  Alex Jones

  Media, Cities, Majority

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• The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

  Howard Dean

  War, Winning, Ideas

  "Dobbs: Five-weeks off for 'do-nothing Congress'" by Lou Dobbs, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2006.

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• No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

  Christopher Dawson

  Lying, Issues, World

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• I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.

  David O. McKay

  Responsibility, Church, Citizens

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• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

  Opportunity, Years, Parent

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• I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.

  Brian Regan

  Art, Jobs, Hate

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• Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

  Alan Bersin

  People, Mexico, Labor

  "Border 101". Article by Brady McCombs, tucson.com. October 24, 2010.

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• United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

  Nicanor Parra

  Country, Usa, Poetry

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• Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you in the United States House of Representatives. Together, we will continue fighting to protect our Texas conservative values and the preservation of the America we know and love for future generations to come.

  Mike Conaway

  Fighting, Opportunity, Texas

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• It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Law, Practice

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.263

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• Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

  Herbert Croly

  Ocean, Land, Promise

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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